RoseFire Photography

As Rob Sheppard said, “Good black and white photography is not about the removal of colour!” Seeing photographs in black and white helps you to notice the details of the photograph that was once overlooked when the photo was in colour. My inspiration for this photo came from my love of light and fire. In this shot I positioned my model in front of a white piece of cloth that I suspended from my roof. I used side lighting from my bedroom window for this shot and for my subject matter I used my mother because the colour of her black hair contrasted nicely with the white sheet and the sparkler. The reason for me using the sparkler as the main focus for my photo is because it reminded me of my childhood also because of the free movement of the sparks. I also chose this photo because I think the shadows in the photograph add a mysterious mood to the photo as half of my models face is hidden by the shadow and the other half by the sparkler almost as if the two elements are trying to...

It is especially important to keep in mind when taking a photo for an advertisement that your subject is not the product being photographed but rather the benefit that is derived from owning the product. Advertising shots are not just confined to still lifes and pack shots, you could take photos on any scale.  The inspiration for this photograph came from my love of fruit and total chaos. I decided to arrange the fruit in a chaotic manner to make it look as if the fruit bowl was being knocked over. I used a hollowed-out pineapple as the “fruit bowl” as well as a combination of grapes, blueberries, kiwi, strawberries and nartjies to spill out of the pineapple. I used these fruits because their colours complimented each other very well.  I placed the “fruit bowl” that looked as if it was knocked over with the fruits spilling out of it on a silver platter as it showed some reflections of the fruit and photographed it up against a cream coloured wall that wasn’t ...

As Andri Cauldwell said “To see in colour is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.” Seeing photographs in black and white makes you notice details of the photograph that you missed when the photo was in colour. My inspiration for this shoot came from a similar photograph that was taken by James Pond. In this shoot I made use of a piece of black cloth as a backdrop, side lighting from my bedroom window and for the subject matter I chose to use a yellow Lego man, a Sigma lens and an earbud. I planned the photo in a Still Life manner. The black material that I used as a backdrop adds a different texture to the photo which can be seen because of the light hitting it from the side coming from the window.   The reason for my choice of the Lego man using the earbud to clean the lens was to portray whimsy in the photograph. As you can see in the photograph the lens isn’t clean, I left it that way so that it looks like the Lego man still h...