Photography

Stay in Pangkor – 3rd & 4th September

Posted by Ben Heys on September 12, 2007 with No Comments

As I said before our stay at Pangkor island resort was the splurge part of the trip. I very much doubt I’ll be staying in anything other than budget accomidation for the rest of my 6 months over here, certainly nothing that will measure up to the luxury that this place had. A beautiful villa, right on the beach, complete with a private outdoor shower that would probably run Wivenhoe damn dry in about 10mins. Top it all off with a sunset most postcards would be envious of and it was bloody close to perfect. I’ll let the pictures tell the story: Read More »

Singapore girl – 4th September

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 »

Pangkor monkeys – 3rd & 4th of September

Malaysia / Travel photography

Posted by Ben Heys on September 6, 2007 with 5 Comments

Before I write a post on the island itself and where we stayed I thought I’d pop up a bit about the monkeys. Chaotic little bastards that they are. Our first encounter with them was when we first got to our room at Pangkor Island Resort (the ‘splurge’ part of the journey). First afternoon I walked outside to see a monkey sitting on the fence to our villa only meters away, I quickly ran in and got the camera and Celine decided to feed him a banana, as soon as he saw the food he charged Celine (which I think I found a whole heap funnier than she did). After that she’d scream and hide away indoors whenever the monkeys... Read More »

Journey to Pangkor (Malaysia) – September 1st & 2nd 2007

Malaysia / Travel photography

Posted by Ben Heys on September 4, 2007 with 2 Comments

It was a pre dawn wake up this morning as I had a sunrise shoot planned with a local model by the name of Geraldine (more on this perhaps in a later post). After that is was back to the backpackers to frantically pack and push the 11am check out time. A huge lunch (thanks to Celine ordering half the food court) later and we were struggling on with bursting bellies down to the Golden Mile complex to try to negotiate our way into Malaysia. Unfortunately as we found out when we got there it was some sort of national holiday and most busses were booked. Only ticket we could get was on a ‘luxury’ snoozer coach for S$42... Read More »

Singapore, Day 1 – August 29 2007

Singapore / Travel photography

Posted by Ben Heys on August 30, 2007 with 2 Comments

Arrived bright and early in Singapore this morning. In fact due to a beefy tailwind most of the way, we rocked up an hour earlier than we were due to (and we were due at the unholy time of 5:45am). Too bad Celine (slacker!) wasn’t as early as the plane. Also my cunning plan to get up the previous morning at 6am, stay awake all day and then pop a sleeping pill to ensure an unconscious plane trip was a total failure. There’s just no way I could find to fold this lanky frame of mine into those little ecconomy class spaces and actually be comfortable enough to fall asleep. If only they showed big brother on the flight,... Read More »

So You wanna earn money from your photos? (part III)

Microstock / Photography / Stock photography / Tutorials

Posted by Ben Heys on August 19, 2007 with 15 Comments

Tips to succeed Here we come to the tips and techniques part of the article. Now bear in mind I’ve only been submitting to stock agencies for about 6 months and even that time could be best described as part time. So I’m no expert, in fact I could well be talking through my ass. Nevertheless I have put some time into it and discovered a few things that just may make your life a little easier if you are planning on going down this path: #1 Keyword, title and describe your shots in PS Please don’t tell me you are thinking of going exclusive with Istock – I almost did and I dodged the biggest bullet of my... Read More »

Australian Landscapes – 18th August 2007

Australia / Travel photography

Posted by Ben Heys on August 18, 2007 with No Comments

Just a quick entry to let you guys know that I added a new section to the gallery here containing a few random landscapes from around Australia (mostly from S.E. Qld & northern N.S.W.) 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 behind them. Lighting was 3 strobes in total, one to each side of and behind Soph (bare bulb) and another... Read More »

So You wanna earn money from your photos? (part II)

Microstock / Photography / Stock photography / Tutorials

Posted by Ben Heys on August 10, 2007 with 1 Comment

Microstock: The players Shutterstock Now if you’ve taken even a cursory glance at the table on the previous page it should be immediately evident that if there is one stock site you want to be on – this is it. There isn’t too much to complain about with shutterstock, sure they are a little more discerning with their content than the other sites (bar Istock & SXP) but when you have the industry presence they obviously do, you can afford to be. In fact it could well be part of the reason why they do so well – customers are going to go where the quality is, so tougher acceptance hoops to jump through can really only be... Read More »

So You wanna earn money from your photos?

Microstock / Photography / Stock photography / Tutorials

Posted by Ben Heys on August 9, 2007 with 3 Comments

Quick links for photographers: Shutterstock Dreamstime Fotolia 123 RF Bigstock Istock My Introduction to MicroStock Photography A few months back, around the beginning of the year (2007) I decided to do a little experiment and post some shots up on a couple microstock sites. I didn’t expect much out of it as my work was mostly fashion and art nudes, not drops of water, mobile phones or business people shaking hands. Nevertheless my shots started to sell better than I’d expected and so I delved a little deeper into this experiment. To be fair I really haven’t put in all that much effort into it thus far, perhaps over the course of the year it would have averaged... Read More »