Robert Mayplethorpe studio

This photograph that I captured was a photograph that was inspired by Robert Mayplethorpe. My ideas that came to mind when taking this photograph was that I wanted to just use one body feature which in this photograph I came to the conclusion was a arm and hand. When I was taking this photograph I was exploring photographs using bubbles. This was just experimenting but when I came to look at the photographs they came out very well. Through the editing process of this photographs I decided to convert the whole background to black and white and keep the bubble in colour. This was because inside the bubble was a photograph that I cropped and down sized to fit. This photograph is of hands strapped together. I placed this in the bubble to show that there is no escape which is the meaning behind my photograph. If I would go back and improve this photograph I would of taken the photograph closer to see more detail into the bubble.



This photograph is of Demi Wrenn and I positioned her to show pain in her face and to show herself pulling away from the strings that are strapped round her hands. This photograph was also inspired by Robert Mayplethorpe and was shown to show trying to escape like the photograph above. The editing I decided to convert to black and white this was because I felt it would be more affective to show the negative situation. The black and white also made it show the lightness and darkness within the photograph. If I would go back and improve this photograph I would change the editing to a dim colour instead of straight black and white.


Overall I feel that this shoot went very well. This shoot was in the studio and was an extended shoot for  Robert Mayplethorpe to get some more photographs. I found that the first studio shoot I did that was inspired by Robert Mayplethorpe didnt go as well as I thought it would. Therefore the second time I did it I felt that it was a better improvement and contained better ideas to experiment and edit with.