Mapplethorpe - Location.

Mapplethorpe - Location

In todays photography session, we watched a documentary on Mapplethorpe's work and life. After watching this documentary, we had to go out on the college location to take photos which resemble his in the way of having an object against a large amount of background. On location, I found this extremely hard, so I decided to use a building wall and a models body to continue this before moving onto the Studio version.

My two selected photographs:

In this photograph, we can see a close up shot of a figures fingers and sleeve but also part of their leg against a large amount of red background. The positive point of this photograph, is the clothes and hand become the main focus point as they stand out against the large amount of background, this is a positive factor because it really draws in the attention from the viewer as they try to interpret why only the hand is shown against the large amount of red background. I believe that this photograph does not have a negative or improvement point to reveal.

In the second selected photograph, the viewer can see the close up shot of a young female models face against a large amount of public background (College corridor). The positive point of this photograph is that a close up of the models face was used against the public area background, this is a positive factor because the viewer can interpret a story from just looking at the subjects face and the area the photograph was token. The negative point of this photograph is that my reflection is shown in the glass of the door, this is a negative factor because my reflection becomes a distraction from the models face. An improvement I would like to make to this photograph, would be to clone my reflection out if possible.

Further improvement:
For my further improvement for a physical experiment, I would like to print the first selected photograph before writing random related words upon an upsetting subject so the audience can take more of wild interpretation of the photograph.