Outdoor location fashion/beauty glamour shoot. we used the Nelson Mandela bridge in braamfontein. make up and styling was done beforehand so we could shoot this quickly without hassle from security on the bridge. I used a fairly wide zoom so I could get the two models and the bridge Joburg city environment which was the whole point of this…Read More

Dried leaf, flowers. This is a studio shot…kind of a still-life I suppose. I shoot a lot of this type of still-life
using dried leaves/ flowers etc. usually shot on a tripod from above…overhead….with a side light like a small soft box….thats fairly close and low. Shooting like this you can really arrange your elements and move things in…Read More

This is another of of my Joburg #StreetPhotography shots #Monochrome #BNWPhotography
kinda the type of image that I’m drawn too…..think this may even be my own reflection in the centre.
Joburg city. one camera and one lens…which is the way I usually go out. Always a prime like a 35mm or a 50mm mainly.
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Shot this image on the streets of New York a while back. actually a #FilmPhotography image,
but its also well #streetphotography the kinda thing you look for when walking around with a camera and NYC has no shortage of photographic eye candy you just have to not get too overwhelmed by all the stuff to shoot. what i always lied about this image…Read More

Street photography…..BW photography…monochrome….well for me like 99% of my street photography,,,wandering around with a camera…is Black & White. Film or digital its BW monochrome, thats what I like what I love what I shoot for like all my personal projects. I have been a fuji shooter last couple years and literally I shoot with a BW film…Read More

This is from a fashion shoot I did for a stylist…….coupla minutes ago,,,,,,well as the saying goes.
Did this shoot in Alex. I posted some other images of this shoot in BW grp, so same gear used: Nikon FE2…my all-time fav 35mm Nikon and the nikkor 35mm prime…I think I did the entire shoot with just this one focal length thats how versatile…Read More

This image of dried leaves….was shot number of years ago on my 500cm Hasselblad with the 80mm lens and a close up lens in front. Think I used the 645 back. I used to do a lot of images of dried flowers and leaves…..organic things that fascinate me….and I would place them on a light table that would create the beautiful illumination from…Read More

This image I shot of Nelson Mandela in Soweto either 2002/3. Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital.
Event for the opening of the Peri-natal HIV unit. I have done I think 4 shoots over the years with Nelson Mandela but this image is the most iconic I ever managed to get…even though I was closer on some occasions. Its one of my favourite portrait…Read More

This is another image from same fashion shoot…..well this image is more of a BW portrait but same shoot as prevous. Also shot on ilford film with Nikon FE2…..or FM2 those were the 2 cameras i used predominantly. lens: nikkor 35mm prime.
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hi all, new to this group and to this site community. I shoot a wide range of subjects….but BW is very close to my heart…..film/digital etc…its like where my creative eye lives and breathes.
this is the first image I’m posting. fashion shoot for a stylist that we did in Alex.
monochrome film probably ilford fp4 or hp5. Shot with Nikon FE2…Read More