In this session we were taking photographs which are inspired by Mapplethorpes portraiture, at first i thought this would be quite a simple task as his photographs look quite simple but when you look at many of Mapplethorpes' photographs you will see that his composition is good and that he does not have an excess border around his photographs.
These are two photographs in which i took which are similar to one of Mapplethorpes', in the top one you can see some of the white plastic which no longer creates a simplistic photograph with good composition, so when i re-took the photograph i made sure that it was just the orange background in the shot.
This is another one of the photographs which i took, i feel that it is similar to some of Mapplethorpe's work as it captures a simple expression on Molly's face whilst also capturing some of the background. If i was to improve this photograph i would make it portrait instead of landscape as it would capture the end of Molly's hair instead of cutting it off.
Progression - If i was to re-do this session i would make sure that all the photo's i took would have good composition and i would try and capture some more photographs against different backgrounds so it makes the image look more interesting. This is one of Mapplethorpe's self portraits but instead of using a plain background he has got a star behind him. I feel that this makes the photograph more interesting so i would like to use different backgrounds in my work.
