What are Diptychs?

Elizabeth Halford: Elizabeth Halford uses Diptychs to story tell as well as to do with time. Such as the washing up and the Baby being washed shows either Day and Night or Dirty and Clean.





http://digital-photography-school.com/diptychs-triptychs-5-prime-examples


John Bernhard: John Bernhard has used Diptychs in a different way by matching two completely different subjects together but making them work as they are the same shape or bare a resemblance.





When i went to my tutorial we had a discussion to as how I should present my portfolio piece. My tutor suggested to me about using the formation of a Diptych. I had no idea what this was so I went back and did a bit of research around this type of format.

http://www.johnbernhard.com/Diptych/Pic01.html

Blists Hill Visit 2

Today I went to the Victorian Museum again to get another range of photographs which I did not manage to get last time.
Here are some examples of some that I took:







I am not sure how they are going to work as portfolio piece yet. I need to how a look to see how other portfolio pieces are put together and also techniques. I am also due a tutorial too so hopefully my tutors will point me in the right direction.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I have been looking at some of Robert Mapplethorpe's photography as he is quite well known for taking photographs of flowers. I looked at his work to see what type of compositions he used when photographing and also whether he used different colours, black and white, bunches of flowers, on single flower etc to try and get some inspiration.







http://www.mapplethorpe.org/portfolios/flowers/

I got a lot of inspiration from looking at his work. I especially liked looking at the different compositions he used as some of them are quite unusual and some are very elegant. It gives me the perception of innocence which I may try to carry with my photography