Jewellery Photography by Andrea Russell
One of my greatest passions in life is Jewellery Photography. It is tricky, it is fiddly, it is very time consuming and every minute detail counts, BUT, I still love it! One of the sure reasons why I specialise in Jewellery Photography is because of my family background. My dad was a watchmaker and his sister a jewellery retailer in Melbourne. She had a store on Sydney Rd, Brunswick for more than 30 years. When I was in year 10 she sent me of to learn jewellery making from her favourite manufacturing jeweller. I worked with him every saturday for more than a year. When he offered me an apprenticeship I was very excited and proud of myself. I did not take the apprenticeship however. I decided instead to finish high school and study design at uni, then Applied Photography at RMIT. When I started studying photography all I wanted to do was learn how to shoot jewellery, I know it drove my lecturers mad! My persistence to learn what I believe to be the hardest type of photography I know has paid of. I now have the skills many photographers never learn and it makes the job of photographing other products like clothing and shoes, cosmetics and giftware, and even cars a whole lot easier!
