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Creative lighting tutorial – Ghostly Visage

Posted by Ben Heys on February 15, 2012 with 2 Comments

Ok, before I get stuck into the tutorial I’ve got a quick challenge for those of you photographically minded: have a look at the shot, look at the shadows and have a guess yourself at what lighting setup I used, then read on to see if you are right! The reason I thought I’d do a quick lighting tutorial on this particular image here as it’s probably the number one image I get asked about in terms of technique used in the lighting setup. These questions often come with explanations of attempts made or theories as to what the... Read More ››

Shoot with Nardia – 21st November 2011

Model photography / Nude / Photography

Posted by Ben Heys on December 4, 2011 with 1 Comment

A couple weeks ago through an unfortunate set of occurrences I ended up meeting a couple pretty cool people. One is the model in this shoot, who ended up being a substitute called in at the last second when things went awry with the first model. The other being Ian Barclay, the excitable Scottish bloke who is himself a decent snapper, model Psychologist, impassioned shirt connoisseur (trust me, you don’t want to wear a Hawaiian shirt in front of this guy) and finally the owner of the resort these images were shot at. The beautiful Serene Sands Health Resort. He even came... Read More ››

Welcome back!

Model photography / Photography

Posted by Ben Heys on December 28, 2010 with 2 Comments

Well it’s been MIA for a couple years now but now the blog is back, along with a whole new folio site wrapped around it. As it is with most of the work I end up doing it was necessity more than anything else which bred creation. It was an arsehole hacker’s immature actions which ended up having an unbeknown positive side effect: they surgically removed my thumb from an unspeakable place. Ok, the (more) complete story goes like this: Hacker hacks the server my site is on and does such a number on the server that not only are all sites... Read More ››

Lighting Tutorial – Fortune Teller shoot

Creative photography / Lighting / Model photography / Tutorials

Posted by Ben Heys on September 6, 2008 with 4 Comments

This is the first in what will hopefully be a long series of tutorials I’ll be posting on how I’ve achieved the effects I have in some of my creative photography shoots. The subject for today is one of the more creative setups I’ve come up with. It’s the kind of setup that you run over in your mind and are never sure if it’ll work until you give it a go. First up here are a couple of the shots I took with the setup: Now there’s not as much photoshop done to these images as... Read More ››

Beck in the snow – 19th August 2008

Model photography / New Zealand / Nude

Posted by Ben Heys on August 22, 2008 with 4 Comments

When Beck contacted me a few weeks back to tell me she was going to be in NZ for a week and was keen to shoot I was dubious to say the least. Thing is I’ve had a couple bad experiences with Beck pulling out on shoots we had organised previously, however she seemed very sincere in her desire to shoot & it’s always good to give people 2nd chances when you can. Well she exceeded all expectations, it was a cold morning with temps hovering around -5 to -10c and I can hardly recall a single complaint out... Read More ››

An afternoon with Soph – 15th June 2008

Fashion photography / Model photography / Nude

Posted by Ben Heys on June 24, 2008 with No Comments

I always grab every oppurtunity I can to work with Soph and so when she was up in Brisbane recently for a few days of work I did just that. We had some makeup artist issues with a late cancelation but Carla came to the party and all ended well. After we finished up with the car shots we filled ourselves up with an awesome homecooked meal (thanks Anne!). The goal for the evening then was just to fit in a bunch of different beauty looks in a fairly short shoot (about 3hrs from makeup start to last shot).... Read More ››

17th March 2007 Bart & Dee Photoshoot (part 1)

Fashion photography / Model photography / Nude

Posted by Ben Heys on April 8, 2008 with 3 Comments

Bit of a delayed posting this one but better late than never. I’ve decided to start adding images and a bit of background info for model shoots to this blog, flesh it out a bit when I’m not travelling. First a word on the models, what a pair! Bart has been at me for quite some time now (he says about 2 years and I’m not arguing with him) for us to do a shoot together and I’d previously had a very successful shoot with Dee & we were both keen to work together again. So when the two... Read More ››

Singapore girl – 4th September

Malaysia / Model photography / Travel photography

Posted by Ben Heys on September 9, 2007 with No Comments

You can take the girl out of the city… But you can’t take the city out of the girl it seems… Read More ››

Silver Soph – 15th August 2007

Creative photography / Fashion photography / Model photography / Nude

Posted by Ben Heys on August 15, 2007 with 2 Comments

Well it’s still a couple weeks until I start traveling and using this blog for its intended purpose so I figure I may as well throw in a few shots here and there as I get them edited. Here are a couple pics from a shoot I did about a year ago with the scrabble genius Soph (yeah it’s taken me this long to get them edited – I’m slack ok?) The setup for this shoot was an overhead bar above and behind Soph with two large pieces of silver sheer cloth hanging from it and a black backdrop... Read More ››