A while back I did a fairly simple shoot with Caroline a friend of mine from school…a looong time go!

Anyway, there’s not really much to say about these, just a simple set of portraits playing around with random looks and items. I enjoyed the chance to just piss about a bit rather than focusing on a pre-designed shooting idea.

Well the spookiest time of year has been and gone. Facebook is already awash with drunk zombies, flashing vampires and pirates um..pillaging? I thought I might as well upload some of our house party.

We were going to go to torture garden again, until we looked at the prices. £35 a ticket for non-members! Now I know that’s not a massive price for a holiday club ticket, but if you’re a couple (which we are) and you spend £80ish on a costume each, plus a fair few drinks once you’re inside, it quickly becomes around the same price as a weekend away, obviously just with less BDSM. Well, depending where you go for your weekend away

I should point out I was pretty drunk when taking these, and didn’t actually take the one with me in (surprise, surprise) but still, here’s us at halloween. I was meant to be the crow, I’ve just not got the wig on here!

The extra’s to this set can be found on facebook in a few minutes.

Happy Halloween!

I did a photoshoot recently where we played around with some strange poses and body shapes in the dark. Fuck it, I have nothing interesting to say right now. Just look at the damn photos.

and for something a bit bigger, I put together a collage of those images. I’ve got this at some stupidly high resolution, so might make a full size print of it for exhibition at some point. Not sure. Click the image for a detailed version.

Oh, and one more for an older photoshoot that just fits:

I’ve begun to get a little bored of uploading photos here, I have such a backlog at the moment. Add to that the fact that feedback seems to have dried up somewhat and I’m struggling to be bothered to upload more.

Anyway, I’m dragging myself up to post something, so here’s a few portraits from the studio. Remember, if you want to model, email me at neb8neb@gmail.com (my ben@benbale.com email is playing up at the moment – sorry if you’ve tried to email me on it in the last couple of months, I wont have got it!)

I don’t know why this post has come out so blue, but go listen to 5000 Years by Recoil.

A while ago I uploaded a photoshoot which was a little bit of a mix between a fashion photography lady gaga glam mix and rough and ready rock and roll.

Well this one is a bit more Parisian boudoir I suppose. We redecorated our bedroom a couple of weeks ago, so I got a model round to give the purple walls something to look at! I think the mix is perfect, but then I’m biased.

Verdict?

Oh and here’s a candid one from while I was setting up, I think it’s quite fun

The models I’ve worked with over the years will probably all tell you different things about working with me, but I imagine one thing that will get repeated a bit is the fact that I never really stick to the idea we started with.

That’s certainly the case with this photoshoot of Zoe. We started working on the idea of someone carrying their virginity around as if they were tied to their childhood before spinning off wildly into ‘Mindless Self Indulgence’ album titles (prizes for the first person the get the link).

So the first half of the photoshoot started a little bit like this…

Zoe was a really interesting model to work with, and certainly someone I’d like to work with again some day.

Anyway, the second half of the photoshoot went a little off topic:

Am I the only one that always thought it was odd that Dr. Frankenstein started off by making a 7ft tall guy? Personally, I’d have gone sex slave, then home help. Although taking another look at the orignal film, maybe he was just both

I love playing with images that are a little bit weird, a little on the dark side. It’s friggin easy to stick a a good looking girl or guy in front of a camera and take a photo. I’ll always prefer creating an image that engages people in more ways than just getting them to jerk off. Not that there’s anything wrong with that – just think about the artistic side of it while you do.

So here are a few photos from different shoots that are a little different.

This was one of my favourite photoshoots ever. It was something different, something a bit dark and dirty and yet very sexy at the same time. It helps that Dannie is good fun to work with and a very professional model.

This was a university bathroom and we just turned up, started shooting and left – a couple of builders turned up half way through the nude photoshoot and were so embarrassed they ran straight out again.

I’ve never quite understood the whole toliet fetish thing, I mean I get the fact that it’s seeing something private – more private than sex for some people, but it’s not something I’m that faffed about personally!

I found this dummy/puppet at the side of a railroad near Southampton while doing a photoshoot. I couldn’t throw it away, but I’ve yet to fix it up, so it tends to randomly appear in different photoshoots over the years and currently sits in the loft of our flat in London. She/he doesn’t have a name yet and is bound to feature in future photoshoots, so any naming suggestions are welcome!

These were taken on a photoshoot near Canary Wharf in an empty flat. The model, FIona did really well as she was nude covered in these awful dead roses. I’d love to redo this shoot with a bottle of vodka, a Roxy Music album and a lot more roses to really bring out a darker more intimate side to the shoot. I suppose you could call this fashion photography- I’d buy the shoes from the top photo anyway!