Ben Adams

New Blog!

2010-02-25T19:47:00.000-08:00

Hi, just letting you know that I now have a brand spanking new blog. So don't bother coming back here again. Check it out here: blog.benadams.com.au

AFRICA

2010-02-07T21:34:00.000-08:00

My blogging has been abysmal lately! But just wanted to direct you to our travel blog http://bensarahsexcellentadventure.blogspot.com/ . We are currently shooting in Arica for a few weeks for Compassion Australia, we spent 2 weeks in Kenya, and now we are in Ethiopia for a week. Will be back blogging many many weddings asap......

Narelle + Lee Engagement

2009-10-14T03:36:00.000-07:00

So getting back home after being away for 10 weeks has been quite a mission. Many many engagement shoots to do and weddings to knock over. Fun fun!

Narelle & Lee are good friends of ours, Narelle works at Compassion with my wife, so we are very excited to be shooting these guys wedding next weekend! Its always that much more fun shooting a wedding when you are friends with the couple.

We headed down to one of my favourite spots at Glenrock. Please click here to see the whole shoot www.benadams.com.au/stories/narelle+lee/

We're Back! For a little while anyway....

2009-10-14T03:32:00.000-07:00

So we have been back home for a few weeks now and I have a stack of stuff to get up on this blog. We had an amazing time, and I hope to be able to share a whole heap of images from our trip very soon! (Hopefully on a new website I am in the process of making...). Anyway I hope you enjoyed our travel blog, it was a lot of fun to do, and we can't wait for our next trip which is to Kenya in January!

Our Travel Blog

2009-07-18T08:04:00.000-07:00

Hey! It's been a while for a new post on here, that's mainly because I am currently in the middle of Borneo! I would like to direct you to our travel blog http://bensarahsexcellentadventure.blogspot.com/ . I probably won't have time/couldn't be bothered to blog on my photo blog and the travel blog, and the wife really wanted to do a travel blog - so go and check it out!

We are in Borneo for a month hanging out at an amazing orphange in the middle of nowhere, then we are off to Jakarta for a month shooting stories for Compassion and Oxfam, which will be awesome! Then heading to Tokyo for a couple of weeks.

Cheers

Janet & Ben

2009-07-07T15:07:00.001-07:00

So I have pretty much just been shooting thousands of engagement sessions lately! Life has been really hectic as we go overseas in 3 days for a 10 week trip (will blog more about that later). So we have just been getting ready for the wedding season for when we return!

Janet & Ben are an awesome couple, heaps of fun. Click here to see more www.benadams.com.au/stories/janet+ben/

Chris & Sarah

2009-07-07T15:02:00.000-07:00

Click here for the shoot www.benadams.com.au/stories/sarah+chris/

Lisa & Mark

2009-07-07T14:58:00.000-07:00

Click here for the shoot www.benadams.com.au/stories/lisa+mark/

Adeline & Adam

2009-06-24T12:50:00.000-07:00

I love it when my clients pick an awesome location that I have not seen or shot at, I get really excited and makes it all so fresh! This shoot was actually done at the Newcastle Uni, I studied there for a year and I never new about the 'Scobie Heath Wetlands', I shall definetly be shooting there again!

These guys also both studied here and they actually didn't meet till 2 years after they finished. They met at a dance class, pretty cool! Anyway they discovered that they studied at the same time, in the same area of uni, and they would have walked past each other all the time, so we did a little 're-inactment' on the bridge in our shoot!

Click on the link to see more: www.benadams.com.au/stories/adeline+adam

Brooke & Grant

2009-06-18T03:32:00.000-07:00

Perfect light + Amazing location + Hot couple

You can't go wrong with that! Easily one of my favourite shoots to date.

Click on the link to see the whole shoot www.benadams.com.au/stories/brooke+grant

Sarah's Bday

2009-06-17T04:06:00.000-07:00

My hot wife had her birthday on the weekend, so we partied it up! We had a whole day of eating planned, but only just made it through to lunch with that. . . . stuffed ourselves silly!

Anyway here are some photos of our fun and frivolities www.benadams.com.au/stories/sarahs+bday

TrueLive

2009-06-16T20:08:00.000-07:00

I shoot the Brewery's gigs now, usually way past my bedtime, but its a lot of fun. I had never heard of TrueLive before, cause I don't follow/like hiphop music, but these guys were awesome! Thought I would stick up some pics online of the gig.

Click here to see www.benadams.com.au/stories/truelive

Tara & Boof

2009-06-16T16:42:00.000-07:00

Got to photograph the lovely Tara & Boof all the way from the central west slopes and plains of Dubbo the other day! They are getting married in Newcastle later on in the year. I ruined Tara's straightened hair in the first 2 mins of the shoot by making them walk in the rain on the beach, I felt pretty bad. . . probably not the best idea as we were both fighting the flu!

Anyway click on the link to view the shoot: www.benadams.com.au/stories/tara+boof

Kindred

2009-06-16T04:59:00.000-07:00

Shot the band Kindred the other day. . . . . . was a lot of fun. Might try and shoot a heap more bands this year. Enables you to be a lot more creative and a lot less stressful than shooting weddings! The last shot there was shot with digital through my old 5x4 view camera.

Click here to see the shoot: www.benadams.com.au/stories/kindred

B B B B Brendan. . .

2009-06-11T13:11:00.000-07:00

My good mate Brendan came around yesterday and we edited up a whole heap of his photos from Madagascar. Brendan is doing amazing work over there! Check it out here. Brendan also aspires to be a male model one day, so we went out and had some fun getting some shots for his portfolio! . . . . haha not.

So click here if you want to see more of Brendan, emphasis on want. www.benadams.com.au/stories/brendan

Popcorn!

2009-06-11T04:05:00.000-07:00

We had a lovely visit from my sister and 2 nieces the other day, and we decided that popcorn would be great treat to make! Which was a whole lot of fun for Maeve and Grace as it was their first time ever to see popcorn being made. Much fun had by all!

Here are some more pics: www.benadams.com.au/stories/popcorn

Gareth

2009-06-07T04:02:00.000-07:00

Gareth is my good mate, we have travelled the world together. He kindly assisted me yesterday for my shoot with local band 'kindred' (I will post up there pics in the next week), and he did a darn good job! So I am giving him some love and putting up a few of our lighting test shots. For the ladies. . .

5x4 Magic!

2009-06-04T20:28:00.000-07:00

So I have a Linhof 5x4" View camera I use for all my landscape work, and it has a Schneider 90mm super angulon (a beautiful piece of glass!). I hate that I have to shoot film through it, so I have tried to "convert" it to digital by using my 5D mkII and shooting the back of the ground-glass of the linhof. Make sense?

Anyway I was playing with it last night in my studio and was getting this kind of result (the hot pic of me above) . . .

Its not perfect or pin sharp, but it sure adds a lot more character to the image than shooting straight digital. The 5x4" format adds so much more depth, I love it, so i will keep trying to modify this thing and get some better results.

Plus the ground-glass has all these scummy marks on it which looks cool, the only post processing I did was add some contrast and sharpening. The rest was all "in camera/s" . . . . . .

"Letting Go"

2009-05-28T17:31:00.001-07:00

So these are the pics & album cover from Matt's new album we did. . . . . . . .

Matt's Album Launch

2009-05-27T22:30:00.000-07:00

Had Matt's album launch on last night for his new album "Letting Go". I did the photography for the album & my bro Tim did all the sweet graphics.

Click on this link to see a few more random pics from the gig last night www.benadams.com.au/stories/matt+albumlaunch

More Happy Families

2009-05-26T14:06:00.001-07:00

More happy families! . . . .www.benadams.com.au/stories/more+happy+families

The Deans

2009-05-26T13:25:00.000-07:00

So the Deans were a smart bunch of people and took me up on the free mothers day photo shoot!

Click here to see more of them if you want . . . www.benadams.com.au/stories/deans

Kristy's Dress Trashing

2009-05-21T22:22:00.000-07:00

Kristy had her wedding dress hand made in Spain, she wanted to trash it! . . . . and so did I.
Click here to view the shoot www.benadams.com.au/stories/kristys+dress+trashing

Adams & Adams

2009-05-14T14:18:00.000-07:00

We have been blessed to have a temporary studio space in Hunter St. It is so darn good being able to go to work to your own studio!! We have been there for a month now, thought it might be time to upload some pics of it. It is a joint venture with my brother Tim who is a graphic designer (www.timadams.com.au). I am plugging my wedding photography there, being that it is right in the middle of all the bridal shops. Feel free to come and drop in anytime!
Here are more pics of it www.benadams.com.au/stories/adams+adams

Kristy & Dave's Wedding

2009-05-05T13:39:00.000-07:00

I have been blogging my little heart out lately! Just trying to get on top of all my work, slowly getting there......anyway I shot this beautiful wedding in town the other day/month. Have been hanging out to shoot my first wedding at the gentlemen's club, so I was stoked to hear this is where they would be getting married! Kristy's dress was hand made in Spain, we just trashed it the other day (photos to come soon)........
Anyway click here to view Kristy & Dave's photos www.benadams.com.au/stories/kristy+dave+wedding

Tania & Carl's Wedding

2009-05-05T03:33:00.000-07:00

Got to shoot Tania & Carl's wedding a little while back. Was a perfect afternoon down by Lake Macquarie, with my favourite dash of late evening light. Love it.
Hope they like boats . . .
Click here to see their wedding day www.benadams.com.au/stories/tania+carl+wedding

Caths 21st

2009-05-03T01:22:00.000-07:00

This happened a month ago, better late than never! Everyone has seen these all over facebook anyway, but here are my fav's from the night.....www.benadams.com.au/stories/caths+21st

Anne & Sam

2009-05-03T00:20:00.000-07:00

Had a fun shoot the other day photographing my friend Anne's little boy Sam.
Click here to see my fav's . . . . www.benadams.com.au/stories/anne+sam

Mexican Chocolate Meringues

2009-05-02T23:53:00.000-07:00

Its Sunday afternoon so I'm having a lazy one going through my photos and cleaning up the computer. Found some cool shots we took the other day when we made Mexican Chocolate Meringues. I had a craving for meringue, as you do, and I found this sweet recipe. I was rather excited about these as you cannot go wrong with a combination of meringue, chocolate (fair trade of course!) & cinnamon. But I managed to stuff up and leave out a few crucial ingredients, ending up in a runny meringue mixture, ending up in us having to use cupcake trays to try and give the meringue some shape. Complete disaster, but what we recovered tasted awesome!
Good times......www.benadams.com.au/stories/mexicanmeringues

Red Wall People

2009-05-01T02:30:00.000-07:00

So I am in my new studio with my brother Tim. Its Awesome to say the least. I will blog about it soon. But we had a little 'open' night last night and took some photos against our sweet red wall.
Click here to see them all www.benadams.com.au/stories/open+night

Tim's Grad

2009-04-28T12:23:00.000-07:00

Congrats to my Brother Tim for becoming the first Adams child to get a degree in anything, 1 in 5 aint too bad mum....
Just putting these up for the families viewing pleasure, or for stalkers of Tim.
Click here to see the rest www.benadams.com.au/stories/tims+grad

Rob & Lindsay

2009-04-18T16:49:00.000-07:00

Had a great time shooting Rob & Lindsay's Wedding yesterday, we didn't have much luck with the weather, but somehow the evening provided us with some colour in the sky.

Lens For Sale

2009-04-01T13:05:00.000-07:00

Hey, I am selling a brand spanking new Canon 24-105 f4l IS lens, I am advertising it on ebay here http://tinyurl.com/c8997k
Let me know if you want to make an offer.

Mothers Day Special

2009-03-26T11:45:00.000-07:00

So Mothers Day is fast approaching, so i thought I would run a Special for it, just because mums are awesome. So I am offering a FREE 1 hr portrait session, and a FREE 8x12" print. Extra prints, CD's, etc - are an additional cost, so feel free to email me to get my pricelist for these. I have put up a sample family portrait shoot HERE, this is a shoot I did for my Sister Naomi and her family. To book a portrait session just shoot me through an email (mail@benadams.com.au) or call me on 0423352630.
Click here to see the portrait session: www.benadams.com.au/mothersday/

1 year down....80 to go!

2009-03-25T12:01:00.000-07:00

So we had our 1 yr wedding anniversary the other day! So we spent a few days out in the hunter valley to celebrate, we had an awesome time. If you are ever going out there and want a quiet/secluded/awesome place to stay, then look up 'sincero'. Its our second time there and we cant get enough of it. Hunter valley is so cool, great views, great food & wine....good times! I promised Sarah that the next camera we got would be hers, so she scored the new 5D mkII......dang....
Sorry but there are heaps of photos of Sarah, as I like to take photos, and she is georgeous.....simple.
Click here to see more photos www.benadams.com.au/stories/wedding+anniversary

French Cricket!

2009-03-13T23:53:00.000-07:00

So we had Sarah's brother Josh come back from Japan for a week and we decided to play some French cricket on the beach for some quality family time! We had so much fun, I haven't played that game in years. It also helped that we were playing at the most beautiful time of the day, the light was awesome (I do love my light......)!
Anyway click here if to see all the pics www.benadams.com.au/stories/french+cricket

Coldplay

2009-03-13T21:06:00.001-07:00

My awesome wife got me tickets for xmas to see Coldplay in Sydney! We had a crazy good time, except the support bands were boring..... (though I did love decoder ring's videos).....we got a sweet spot in the crowd, right on the fence, so we were happy!
Click here to check out more pics if you want....www.benadams.com.au/stories/coldplay

Ezybox

2009-03-01T12:33:00.000-08:00

The other day I got a bargain on ebay, a new Lastolite Ezybox. Bought it for our trip overseas coming up and will come in handy for weddings. I am stoked with the light it produces, considering it is powered by a speedlight. The best part about it is that the softbox folds up into a small 30 ish cm round bag, perfect for travelling with! The family came around for lunch the other day, so they were my guinea pigs.....

Updated

2009-02-24T03:54:00.000-08:00

Hey, I have finally updated my website with my own wedding images, and redid the music and people sections, still wondering what to do with the boring commercial page....anyway feel free to check it out...

The Bright Lights

2009-02-11T11:34:00.000-08:00

Just did a shoot for my mates band The Bright Lights on the weekend. Was a stinking hot day, plenty of burnt red faces. First 'music' shoot i've done with more than one person (ie. first shoot that doesn't include matty purcell..) so it went pretty well.
There's more here www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/The+Bright+Lights+

Sista Catherine

2009-02-10T10:53:00.001-08:00

Took some photos of my little sister a while back, and promised I would get them done for her. Here they are Cath!
They are all here www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/sista+catherine

Mr Brendon Singhdeo

2009-02-05T11:23:00.001-08:00

The other day I got to hang out with one of my favourite people, Mr Brendon Singhdeo, founder of Chosen Servant Ministries. Brendon has been doing mission work for 6 years, spending the last couple of years in Madagascar. He has set up Chosen Servant Ministries in Madagascar which is an organisation with the purpose of feeding the poor and teaching them how to feed themselves, providing education and opportunities for people to succeed in life. This dude is amazing, he is only like 22 yrs old and is doing so much with his life, he is one of my hero's of the faith. So I got my Tronnix Explorer (portable power for studio lights..) in the mail the other day and have been itching to use it, so we cracked it out and got some awesome shots. The idea was to get some shots to use for his ministry, but Brendon's good looks, and suave suit turned them more into fashion shots.....anyway we had a lot of fun doing it. (watch out for the bum in the drain!)
Check out the full shoot here www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/chosen+servant
Click here for the natural light shots www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/chosen+servant2

Rob & Ange

2009-02-04T21:25:00.000-08:00

We shot this wedding a few months back now, I have the day off today so am going through my 'to do' list. Rob & Ange are a great couple,pity about the rain, but they both looked damn fine.
Click here to view the wedding www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/rob+ange+wedding

Dave + Felicity Wedding

2009-02-04T18:23:00.000-08:00

We shot this beautiful wedding late last year, had a perfect day out in the vineyards. Dave & Felicity are a beautiful couple, which makes my job a whole lot easier!
Enjoy by clicking here www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/dave+felicity+wedding

Geoffs 3Oth

2009-02-02T14:26:00.000-08:00

My big bro turned 30 a few weeks back, and his lovely wife got him a tour of an open cut mine. So us 3 brothers and dad headed off for a date with some dirt.......
I cracked out my old slr and tried out some cross processing, plenty of posing in front of big trucks!
Click here to view the lot www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/Geoffs+30th

Our Wedding

2009-01-23T14:34:00.000-08:00

We got our album back a few weeks ago that we made ourselves, have been hanging out to post up the proper pics from our wedding, much better than all the random facebook ones with us shoving cake down our throats......Big shout out to Jake Thomas for the awesome shots and making us look hot...
Click here to view 'the album' www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/Our+Wedding

PPP-TTT-JB

2009-01-22T13:40:00.000-08:00

At Xmas we had the Adams family Table Tennis Championship, named the PPP-TTT-JB ("Port Paradise Party - Table Tennis Tournament - Jesus Birthday"). Tim was crowned the Grand Master Piong Champion after a gruelling 3 set final.The tournament had many highs and low's, Goeff's cheating was a memorable low, Dad then beating Geoff - a memorable high! Ping Pong has the great ability of many a strange face....(sorry mum + amanda)
Click here for full coverage of the tournament www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/ppp+ttt+jb/

Adams Family Xmas

2009-01-22T04:36:00.000-08:00

Some photos from our xmas at Port Macquarie with the family.
Click on this link to see them all www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/port+xmas/

Family xmas #1

2009-01-10T18:30:00.000-08:00

Just a few pics from xmas with Sarah's family which we had on xmas eve.
Click on the link to view all the images www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/xmas+eve/

Broken Foot

2008-12-19T14:12:00.000-08:00

Well its actually only a stress fracture, but broken foot sounds better....My foot has been killing me for 4 months now, no reason why, so I got a bone scan the other day, found out its broken.....Now I have to wear a 'boot' for 2 months, yay!.........

Jeremy Cowart

2008-12-17T12:16:00.000-08:00

Back in October I had the awesome experience of getting to not only meet my favourite photographer in the whole damn world, but I got to hang out with Him for 2 days! His name is Jeremy Cowart, he is from Nashville, check out his stuff if you dont know him www.jeremycowart.com. Jeremy was in Sydney shooting the passion world tour. I was the official 'tour guide' as such, was a pretty surreal time for me. Jeremy and his assistant Daniel were such top blokes, very chilled out, generous, welcoming......The most surreal time was spending an hour in the hottub with Jeremy, on the roof of the hotel, looking over the city, talking about photography and life, kinda crazy for me... [sorry I didnt get a photo of this :)].....oh and also the time eating dinner backstage at the passion night, sitting in a room next to Jeremy, got Chris Tomlin over to my right, Dave Crowder over on the left, Loui Giglio behind me, I soaked that up......and getting photographed by jeremy, that was cool.....
I had such a killer time, I was incredibly inspired, was cool to have them encourage me so much and give me direction in my own work.
I have loaded up a few images for you to check out, CLICK HERE www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/jeremy+cowart/
If you are incredibly bored, you can see me on a video of the tour for 3 secs sliding on my butt......blog.jeremycowart.com

Rob & Ange

2008-12-01T11:06:00.000-08:00

These guys took me to the best location which I never knew about. We had the best light of the day to work with, check out the whole shoot here www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/Rob+Ange/

Carnival

2008-11-30T13:07:00.000-08:00

Me and Sarah were a bit bored the other night so we went down to a carnival! I got cheated out of my money by those dodgy games......I'm a sucker for em....
More pics www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/Carnival/

Liz & Stu's Wedding

2008-11-29T23:24:00.000-08:00

I shot this wedding a couple of months back. Was such a fun/original wedding, have never seen before a bride leave the ceremony,wading out into a lake with gumboots on, to peddle her way across the lake to the afternoon tea.
Click here to view the wedding www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/Liz+Stu+Wedding/

Eddie

2008-11-29T21:06:00.000-08:00

A month back I had the great privilege of shooting Eddie Cross's 14 Hour Day for Disability. I have become good mates with Ed over the past few months as he has prepared for his big day. For those of you who don't know, Ed was one of Newcastle's leading photographers when a few years ago he was brain damaged during a game of AFL. Ed wanted to give something back to the clinics that supported him during his amazing recovery, so he decided to do a 14 hour triathalon to raise the money. The day was amazing to be a part of, super inspiring to witness, Ed raised over $60,000 and still counting. When shooting for 16hrs you get a LOT of images, I managed to get it down to just 100 pics which I think capture the day. Click here to view them all www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/Eddie/

Gareth & Talea

2008-11-28T17:18:00.000-08:00

Decided to try a night shoot in town, so I called up my good buddy G and got him to come out with his lady friend. Tough shooting at night armed with only a hotshoe flash......This is my favourite from the night.

40 Days

2008-11-28T02:42:00.000-08:00

40 Days of getting up early, spending the first hour of my day out in 'nature'........good times. Didnt quite get my 40 images (30 I think).
Click here to see the rest www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/40Days/

Dave & Felicity

2008-11-27T13:16:00.001-08:00

Here is a Pre Wedding shoot I did the other day. Great having the beaches close by for sweet locations.
Click here for the full shoot www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/Dave+Felicity/

Liz & Stu

2008-11-27T12:30:00.000-08:00

I did this pre wedding shoot a few months back now. One of my first ones, was a lot of fun with this couple. A bizarre thing happened on this shoot. In the photo above you can see a tanker called 'queen lily', we were taking photos and this ship goes by and Liz tells me that's what her Dad called her when she was young, so we had to get a shot with it. Kinda random....
To view the complete shoot click here www.benjaminjohnadams.com/stories/Liz+Stu/

First Blog Post!

2008-11-21T03:25:00.000-08:00

Hey welcome to my first ever blog post! should be fun.....I will be uploading a whole heap of new images and stuff over the next couple of days, have been meaning to do this for a while, so will have a few months worth of work & news. So bookmark me and drop by soon!