connecting Essay Three

Robert Mapplethorpe

In Robert Mapplethorpes work he also photographed flowers. When taking pictures of flowers he made them the main focus of the image. You can see this in the image to the right. there is a flower in the centre against a black background. As you can see from this image he makes his flowers look abstract The use of the black background draws the audiences eye to the flower. This image does include the stem of the flower but doesn't include leaves at the top of the stem, this is so that the leaves don't take away the focus from the flower. This image makes the audience feel peaceful because the flower is calm and it allows the audience to loose their thoughts in the image because there is not certain obvious meaning to the photograph. 

         
This next image shows the flower to be the main focus of the image because the flower itself is in focus but the background and the stem is not in focus. The image being taken like this makes the audiences attention to be on the flower. The angle of the picture has been taken slightly from above but not directly from above. This allows the audience to see the detail in the flower and the soft edges. This image does include a real life location background rather than a plain studio background. The flower itself is positioned at the top.

Overall both the images compare because they are both images of flowers. They are similar colours and both involve leaves. In both images you can see the centre of the flower. The flower is the main focus of both images and you can see the outline of the flowers shape very clear because the first image is against a black background and the second image the flower is in focus but the background is not.