Kim & Jeff Wedding - Bali
November 26th, 2009
2009 was a year with a lot of marriages (and still counting) As I explain on my site, what I love in marriage is the variety of situations and people who are there to share a time to party, there are many different photographic opportunities.
I shall refer in detail to any marriage that I was stronger this year (of course with the permission of those concerned).
To start with this post: I have a wedding to cover a little different, the first part took place in Belgium, the second in Bali. The reason is that the family of the bride and groom lived in Europe for each other and to US, result, the couple decided to get married in Bali, for that matter, since in all cases, a part of the family should be a long haul flight to come and attend the wedding.
They asked me a year ago and a half to be their photographer on site.
The first week, I stayed in the same hotel a few, to be present to capture different moments, which really helped me take my time to produce images exactly as I wanted, all In a tropical paradise.
I had already done in Belgium for the engagement a few pictures of the couple rather relax in summer: the advantage of having this pre-session is also to see how it goes with the bride and groom before the camera and create a climate of confidence.
Well, to be honest, the coverage of marriage in Bali me more the impression of being on holiday with friends and being privileged to witness their union, but to work.
I brought a lot of pictures, my usual average of 750 images for a full day has quickly multiplied by the number of days spent with the bride and groom. I therefore propose here a small selection of images made for the wedding (displayed directly in the post after a few applications in this direction) selection deliberately focused on the bride and groom. 
The wedding itself was nice relaxed while being super classy in a rented villa on the edge of the ocean. The married couple had managed to distance the organization by hiring a wedding planner and everything was set up to build a small bridge over the swimming pool so that Kim could cross it heading towards the stage which hosted the ceremony. Next guests, sixty close super pleased with the opportunity to come to Bali for the wedding and provided with their own holiday place before or after.
I will not go on, and on the technical side in this post, I will come back in a second post dedicated to the material away and some pictures of the rest of the stay.
In summary:
A Nikon D3, a 14mm 2.8, a 50 mm 1.4, 1.4 and a 85 a 80 Tilt Volna I used very little, two SB that were useful in the evening. As usual no flash during the day. Backups and skimming were made on site as and when on a Netbook bought for the occasion (Samsung N510), I will also more detail on this aspect in the next post.
Engagement pictures
Marriage
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Two days after the wedding, I went north to the register to find rice terraces. Easier said than done, the rice fields we find all you want, the terrace is another story. It was also the place is accessible for a minimum Kim in her dress.
The idea: I wanted to make a "trash the dress" with the couple, a few days after the marriage, ie again a few pictures in wedding dress and dress in a super different, off ceremony, food, friends, all this leaves damaging to some clothing in the process.
It was used, since it is just before the session with them, almost Tengallalang (yes, I too have struggled to say and to remember) than "chance" on the 3 weeks Bali, we had 25 minutes of intense tropical rain, the real good test of strength of materials under real conditions. Kim and Jeff have played the game and were not afraid to get wet, no pun intended.
The D3 has pretty much been manhandled during these three weeks and especially during the shoot with the couple (see the video to realize), but also in the mud, a lot of dust, sand, water Wed, various shocks but he stood firm and never a problem.
Thank you to Kim & Jeff first for giving me this opportunity, and also for their permission to share these images with you!
Trash the dress
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Backstage
More wedding pictures and information available on my wedding portfolio
November 26th, 2009 at 9:04
We need to comment here? Haha. Only criticism I could do: The video is not HD and is not stable: p
November 26th, 2009 at 9:06
It's fresh, varied, really beautiful! Great job
We really like seeing a number of sessions, so you knew that despite varied styles were the same people
Plus they seem to have made a great marriage!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:08
November 26th, 2009 at 9:13
This awesome wedding! The photos are great commitment, marriage and those are wonderful. The very, very beautiful work!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:20
You see! you post at 9:00 and 9:04 have you ever a fan
is not great again!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:22
I'm a fan!
It's been like travel stories!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:25
Truly magical!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:50
It's just sublime Benjamin
Yeah really beautiful !!!!!!!
November 26th, 2009 at 10:28
Clap, clap, clap! I am speechless! Magic! Thank you for sharing.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:40
beautiful!
Ah to be a critical minimum, I do not like the 1165
but it is really to say sth 
It would be great as an experience anyway!
November 26th, 2009 at 11:11
You are awesome Benjamin!
November 27th, 2009 at 24:46
Excellent!!
The crossing of rice is not yet your specialty but the rest is spot on!!
I saw the D3 and 14 have been flushed from the back ... they all own
November 27th, 2009 at 1:47
Wow it slams all these colors! You manage to say there's nothing.
November 27th, 2009 at 2:46
Awesome! Me like me like me like!
There's a lot of beautiful pictures but this one she tears while still http://www.photob.be/images/2009/kim&jeff/BEN_6724.jpg and of course that of TTD! Bravo
November 27th, 2009 at 8:45
Downright beautiful!
November 27th, 2009 at 10:32
Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurée Ben, great art again, we're all hippies! You create life as we would like it to be!
November 27th, 2009 at 11:00
Nothing to say except "The video is not HD and is not stable: p" and I agree.
treatment is sublime.
Bravo, my top ten wedding photographers.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:16
So there! Cte marriage, high level!
The pictures ... as usual, superb, not to mention the place that allowed you to let you go well with colors and lights. I love it!
For cons, the loose sneakers for the groom .... I like way but hey, it gives one side displaced orbits to the marriage that seemed crafted from start to finish
November 27th, 2009 at 24:06
Reassures me Benjamin,
It happens to you to miss some
November 27th, 2009 at 3:10
Beautiful portraits in a sublime ... But for the two horizons that lean is a shame.
November 27th, 2009 at 4:17
Nickel as usual 'images
I especially like the rain because we realize how this rain just adds a new "material" to your pictures. A dig may be ...
Otherwise you put us over the water at the mouth with the "package" photo that you put us there at the beginning. There we want to see more .... including that of the pool with the flash from the front and the girl out of the water.
Anyway good luck again this new stage of professional independence.
PS: It's over the photos in a new window to "scroll"
November 27th, 2009 at 4:27
super top treatment! Great job as usual!
November 27th, 2009 at 6:52
Since that time waiting for this series.
Bravo the artist.
So my marriage marriage ... we see too much and is pretty standard (except the frame) but the commitment ... yum yum. I love
The photos of the pool, I would like to see in the thumbnail that appears in your collage where the bride is her hair
And my favorites are the ones you made after the rice: great idea .. it's colorful, contrast, wet
These photos are alive and pay tribute to mini reporting.
Thank you and you .. well have fun (The highly technical report of the adventure)
November 27th, 2009 at 7:36
Hi,
nice update and great story.
Rich, colorful, and energizes the atmosphere.
Not against there one that denotes the rest of the series (and in a sense quite important to the married (but I guess you have other in this moment: that of the kissing scene (just before the glasses floating). The bdb seems a little bizarre, though the grass and the sky dull white.
I think the light would be very special but the aircraft could not restore all: against the light / sun side of the device (not back).
But the rest tip top.
Alex
November 28th, 2009 at 10:00
again a good job, you have a long way since MP.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:46
Ben, your pics are superb and inspire your photography. Continually I am impressed how you Have a way to capture the inner beauty of all of your subjects. Vive Bali, friendship and eternal happiness to Kim and Jeff. As you rise to fame photography, I Will continue to cheer you on and sing your praises.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:52
Beautiful pictures bravo.
I hope one day come to your level 
November 28th, 2009 at 5:26
One word: SUPERB!
November 28th, 2009 at 9:52
Moultes congratulations. Reassures months, we must not stop the photo, there is hope for all. This level, gives me: 1, the desire to go even Loint and 2, I question about the technique I use and everything else of course.
Thank you to you for this proof of good work.
Jer.
November 29th, 2009 at 1:14
Congratulations again Ben,
it stings and it rocks!
Even with a D3, I was afraid the rain! I hate to get my 1D4
it's nice video content.
A follow-up when the mail? impractical RSS!
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:49
I admire your work too! Bravo
For the first photo, I remember that I have ever seen anywhere! Where was this?
Thank you to you for your excellent job
kikou
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:33
Hi,
! And your logo attracted me the eye ... No, I have not copied, sworn-spit, I just use the logo spot metering on my D700 
...
A long time I spend on a regular basis in the corner to say hello ... So here, hello
Sufficiently admire your work, and the freshness that emerges ... Technical mastery, originality of vision, and complicity with your models (married and others). In a word, it's called talent.
I wish you a great start in this new life ... I am convinced that there is still room for the picture quality, even though the need for a strong network is certainly much more sense at the time where the camera gear was not yet democratized ... A great experience, almost drives me to do the same
...
A +
DED
December 4th, 2009 at 3:20
Frankly Ben, I think that gives you a real vitality to the wedding photo.
Having toured a lot of sites dedicated to the best days of our lives (well, not just for me ..) I've never seen anything of this kind.
Superb job of components, to editing, and processing
This is not to compliment sterile, but I think you draw the photographers up and motivates you to grow. Anyway, that's what it inspires me when I visit your blog, even if I do not exercise at all in the same style of subject.
thank you
December 8th, 2009 at 9:03
By the way, quick question ... Good move, the choice of goals is something very personal and varies from one photographer to another according to patterns. It's been a while since I want to take the plunge and switch to a fixed 100% (I opted for a versatile solution 24-70 and 70-200 in the purchase of my D700), but when I see the use I make of my 24-70 in marriage, I wonder how I go from this perspective ...
I honestly want to move to fixed optical ultra light, mainly for creativity offered by the full aperture, but I'm a bit worried about using "in situ". When every second counts, I find it convenient to switch from 24 to 70 mm in an instant ...
Did you notice that?
December 8th, 2009 at 9:06
I promised myself to call you when I get married (not even for today ... but who knows!?), This report confirms my choice! These photos are really beautiful, and in the words "Julien Dorol" Thou brings new vitality to a real wedding photo.
Indeed, I have seen anywhere such originality and quality pictures of marriage. Again congratulations!
Thank you for those photos that make us dream!
December 11th, 2009 at 11:32
In my opinion, it is a matter of habit. And when you have fixed objos you work a little differently: you move more, little by little you "framing in the head" and you know very quickly when you place to get exactly what you want ....
I do not know what Ben said, but that's how I feel. I tried the zoom, no way to get used to it, I feel much more comfortable with fixed focal lengths.
Here in passing Ben, I wonder if it really is better to post the images directly in the article because there is much to charge and it is painful when you want to read reviews, there is a kind of scrolling that impossible to read the comments quietly.
December 11th, 2009 at 2:57
@ Julien: very interesting, your "apology 50mm" (by the way, very nice things on your site, especially your portraits Laos and Nepal ...)
And it allows me to be well equipped for just about any situation, weddings, concerts, sport, etc.. 
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To be honest, I had a lot of fixed focal length Canon, but by switching among the "yellow", I bought only 2 zooms, excellent and very versatile. I'm a little key to everything, good for nothing
But then, I think I'm turning around in circles, especially in my work in marriage. In retrospect, I realize that the zoom lock myself in a method, a certain facility and got a bit cut off from the "creative research". I think this year I tried to find myself in situations / positions known to ensure the trick, and it is not very positive.
Well, it's not the stuff that makes the photographer, we all agree. But all have the tools to express ourselves, and I think Ben a solution that allows him to express his creativity
Going back to my question a little higher, my concern is that there are some situations where it is difficult to move. That's why I was hesitant to limit myself to the ultra-wide angle 50mm + + CO Update to portraits.
Here!
December 12th, 2009 at 3:57
Thank you for hackers!!
Nice to stay under a version of Wordpress, hackers love them.
Being under WP 2.6.5 while the latest version is 2.8.6 WP is sought to lose his job, after a passage of a hacker.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:51
My answer to direct questions!
Toma: For stability I would not change, the video is to show a moen conditions not an end in itself
For HD, this is the case for the next I bought a Flip HD
Alex: I like this side scorched the sky, it's a choice taken
Masden: I do not like spamming people
DED: I often speak on the subject, each choice of focal lengths, I like fixed before bringing the eye to the viewfinder I know what part I, no surprises, no waste of time to get my framing. I'm going straight to the point
Reno: I am not convinced of the relevance of your comment in this post in particular, but your comment is supposed, the update is made
MickymX: I choose to be fairly strict in the selection, I made a lot of pictures and make a choice is difficult
For the photo in the pool at night, this is not the bride but a friend.
Three Flash SB, me in the water with the box flush with the fleet
Jonathan Naime, Laurent Garnier, Emilie, Bertrand, Greg, art-now, Eric, dcointre, Michael, DavidGuinehut, NeeleW, buz, Delphine, Adrien, Isa, GLENSCOLAN, Anthony, Didier, Yann, Dati, Arnaud, MickymX, Guy, Kara, Christopher Nizet, Fred Jerome, Kikou, Lere, Thanks for the encouragement!
December 17th, 2009 at 6:24
[...] I explained in the previous post dedicated to the wedding of Kim & Jeff, I will detail the equipment used for this type of reporting and return to a point [...]
December 30th, 2009 at 6:58
Hi Benjamin,
Super Series as usual!
quick question, what treatment you apply to the images are perfect for what (color, contrast)?
March 8th, 2010 at 11:49
Hi,
Simple question, but find you one or tilt this goal you mention, the Volna 80 Tilt? I can not find ...
Thank you!
April 19th, 2010 at 2:39
May 1st, 2010 at 11:19
Shooting very successful.
Let me compare it to an American couple who conducts sessions of commitments in the same genre ( http://www.theblogisfound.com/) . I find this kind of pictures for betrothal and marriage to change what is usual.
Very nice work!
May 5th, 2010 at 12:46
Waw. I remain speechless. I found your address via Lemondedelaphoto.com magazine, and there well, I have more than shooter, shooter, learn and gain experience for one day hope to achieve this level!
Your images show the lightness, the freshness of the moment is gay ... well there are no words, it's beautiful ...
Bravo!
May 13th, 2010 at 9:53
Hello,
beautiful light ...
One remark is only my opinion. The use of wide angle.
The bride and groom seem a bit lost in the image and it distorts a lot.
It's a personal opinion.
The report is pro.
Cordially.
Lawrence.
July 4th, 2010 at 1:58
It's a beautiful wedding, very wet, so hopefully it will be very happy. The photos are beautiful.
September 5th, 2010 at 4:31
Hello,
Beautiful pictures. I love the colors that "slamming," the work of light (the photos in the pool are great). I feel like photographers using only fixed focal lengths, like you, have a look that photographers were not working with a zoom.
Congratulations, it's beautiful!
December 2nd, 2010 at 24:46
BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!