Robert location:

Robert (location):

In this lesson I had to take pictures that represent Robert Mapplethorpes work. However this lesson was different to the one above because the pictures had to be taken on location and not in the studio.

If I was to do this lesson again I would focus more on taking pictures of people because thats what Robert' photographs mainly were.

In this first photo of the flower you can see that the flower itself is in focus but the background is not. This is because Robert made the flower the main object in the photo by using a plain black or white background but because I had to take the images on location I could not do this. If I was to take this image again I would experiment with the different angles I could have taken the image from.

In the second image of the hand you can see that there is contrast between what is in the image and what is not. This is like Robert's image of half of the body and then the hand and arm. If I was to take this image again I could include more of the arm as well as the hand and also show the hand coming out from all different angles of the picture.