Kim & Jeff Wedding - Bali
November 26th, 2009
2009 was a year with a lot of marriages (and still counting) As I said on my site, what I love in marriage is the variety of situations and people who are there to share a moment, partying, there are plenty of different photographic opportunities.
I'll speak more in detail about any marriage that got stronger this year (of course with the permission of those concerned).
To start with this post: I have to cover a wedding a bit 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 some and others to the U.S., a result, the couple decided to get married in Bali, may as well have seen that in all cases, Part of the Family should be a long plane ride 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 as they, to be present to capture different moments, which really helped me take my time to make images exactly as I wanted, all a paradise setting.
I had already done in Belgium for some engagement photos 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 in front of goal and create a climate confidence.
OK, to be honest, this cover wedding in Bali longer given me the impression of being on holiday with friends and being privileged to witness their union, to work.
I brought a lot of pictures, my usual average of 750 for a full day has quickly multiplied by the number of days spent with the couple. I propose you here a small selection of pictures made for the wedding (shown directly in the post due to some requests in this direction) selection deliberately focused on the couple. 
The wedding itself was nice relaxed while being super classy in a rented villa on the edge of the ocean. The newlyweds had managed to distance the organization by hiring a wedding planner and everything was planned to build a small bridge over the swimming pool so that Kim can pass through en route to the platform which hosted the ceremony. Later invited sixty relatives really happy for the opportunity to come to Bali for the wedding and have planned 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 removed material and some pictures of the rest of the stay.
To summarize:
A Nikon D3, a 14mm 2.8, a 50mm 1.4, a 85 1.4 and 80 Tilt Volna I rarely used, two SB that were useful during the evening. As usual no flash during the day. The backups and skimming were made on site as and bought a netbook for the occasion (Samsung N510) I will also more detail on this in the next post.
Engagement pictures
Marriage
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Two days after the wedding, I went north to find the identification of rice terraces. Easier said than done, the rice fields are found all you want, the terrace is another story. It was also the location is accessible for a minimum Kim in her dress.
The idea: I wanted to do a "trash the dress" with the couple, a few days after marriage, ie redo some images in a wedding dress and suit in a different context root, not ceremony, food, friends, all that leaves damaging to some clothing in passing.
It has served, since it is just at the time of the meeting with them, almost Tengallalang (yes, I too have struggled to say and to remember) as "lucky" about three weeks to Bali, we had 25 minutes of intense tropical rainfall, 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 not been badly battered during these three weeks and especially during this shoot with the married (see video for noticing), but also in the mud, lots of dust, sand, water sea, 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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November 26th, 2009 at 9:04
We need to comment here? Haha. The 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! Nice work
We really like seeing a number of sessions, so you were able to vary the style although it was with the same people
And the more they seem to have done a wonderful wedding!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:08
November 26th, 2009 at 9:13
Great marriage! The photos are great commitment, marriage and those are wonderful. From the very very very nice job!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:20
You see! you post at 9:00 and 9:04 have you ever a fan
is not great once again!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:22
I'm a fan!
It makes travel stories like these!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:25
Truly magical!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:50
Is 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!
Oh to be a critical minimum, I do not like the 1165
but it is really to say sth 
It must be great as an experience anyway!
November 26th, 2009 at 11:11
You're awesome Benjamin!
November 27th, 2009 at 12:46
Excellent!!
The crossing of rice is not your specialty but the rest is spot on!!
I saw the D3 and 14 have been rinsed well ... they had to return at own
November 27th, 2009 at 1:47
Wow this slap all these colors! You manage there's nothing to say.
November 27th, 2009 at 2:46
Awesome! Me like me like me like!
There's a lot of great images but this one she rips all anyway http://www.photob.be/images/2009/kim&jeff/BEN_6724.jpg and of course that the TTD! Bravo
November 27th, 2009 at 8:45
Definitely beautiful!
November 27th, 2009 at 10:32
Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurée Ben, great art again, we're all hippies! You create the life we'd like it to be!
Nov. 27th, 2009 at 11:00
Nothing to say except "The video is not HD and is not stable: p or I agree.
treatment is sublime.
Bravo, my top ten wedding photographers.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:16
So there! Const marriage, high level!
The pictures ... as usual, superb, not to mention the place that allowed you to let go you well on the colors and lights. J'adore!
For cons, the loose for the groom's basketball .... I like way but hey, it brings to the marriage orbits side who looked strung from A to Z.
November 27th, at 12:06 2009
Reassure me Benjamin
It happened 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 love the rain because we realize how this rain just adds a new "material" to your images. A dig may be ...
If you put us too much water at the mouth with the package of picture you put us there at the beginning. There we want to see better .... including that of the pool with the flash from the front and the girl out of the water.
Anyway again good luck for this new stage of professional independence.
PS: That's all the photos in a new window from scrolling,
November 27th, 2009 at 4:27
super top treat! Super job as usual!
November 27th, 2009 at 6:52
From the time they are waiting for this series.
Bravo to the artist.
So me marriage marriage ... we do not see too much and is pretty standard (except the frame) ... but the commitment yum yum. Love
Photos of the pool, I would like to see one that appears in your thumbnail in pell-mell where the bride is her hair
And my favorites are those that you made after the rice fields: great idea .. is colorful, contrast, wet
These photos are alive and mini report their homage.
Thank you and you .. well have fun (The highly technical report of the adventure)
November 27th, 2009 at 7:36
Hello,
nice update and great story.
Rich, colorful, ambience and dynamic.
No cons there one which shows the rest of the series (and in a rather important to the married (but I guess you have others in this moment: it is that kissing scene (just before the lenses that float). The bdb seems a bit odd, very dull grass and the sky all white.
I think the light would be very special, but the device could restore everything: cons-day / sunny side of the device (and not in the back).
But the rest tip top.
Alex
November 28th, 2009 at 10:00
Once again good job, you have come 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. Long live 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
Superb picture bravo.
I hope one day come to your level 
November 28th, 2009 at 5:26
One word: SUPERB!
November 28th, 2009 at 9:52
Moult congratulations. Worry month, we should not stop the photo, there is hope for all. This level gives me: 1, the desire to go even Loint and 2, question myself about the technique I use, and everything else of course.
Thank you to you for this evidence of excellent work.
Je.
November 29th, 2009 at 1:14
Well done Ben,
it stings, and it rocks!
Even with a D3, I was afraid the rain! I hate to get my 1D4
it makes fun of video content.
When will the follow up by 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
Hello,
! And your logo I drew the eye ... No, I have not copied, sworn-spitting, I'm just left of the logo spot metering on my D700 
...
A long time I pass regularly in the corner to say hello ... So, hello
Enough admiring your work, and the freshness that comes out ... Technical expertise, unique look, and your complicity models (married and other). In one word, it's called TALENT.
I wish you a great start this new life ... I'm sure there's still room for the photo quality, though the need for a robust network is certainly much greater effect at the time where the camera gear had not yet democratized ... A wonderful experience, almost motivate me to do the same
...
A +
DED
December 4th, 2009 at 3:20
Frankly Ben, I think you gives a real vitality to the wedding photo.
Having toured many sites dedicated to the most beautiful days of our lives (well, not just for me ..) I've never seen anything of this kind.
Superb job of compo, to editing, and processing
This is not to give a compliment sterile, but I think you draw the photographers up and you motivate us to move forward. Anyway, this is what 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
In fact, little way ... Good question, the choice of goals is something very personal and varies from one photographer to another depending habits. It's been a while since I want to take the plunge and switch to fixed 100% (I opted for a versatile solution 24-70 and 70-200 for the purchase of my D700), but when I see my use of my 24-70 in marriage, I wonder how I go from this perspective ...
I feel like spending the fixed optical ultra bright, mainly for creativity offered by the full opening, but I am a bit worried about using "in situ". When every second counts, I find it convenient to switch from 24 to 70 mm in a moment ...
You have an opinion on that?
December 8th, 2009 at 9:06
I promised myself to call you when I get married (this is not for today ... but who knows!?), This report underlines my choice! These photos are really beautiful, and as it says "Julien Dorol" You give a real vitality to the wedding photo.
In fact, I have seen anywhere such originality and quality pictures of marriage. Congratulations again!
Thank you for these pictures that we are reversible!
December 11th, 2009 at 11:32
In my opinion, it is a matter of habit. And when you have objos fixed, you work a little differently, you move much more slowly you "framing in the head" and you know very quickly where to put you to get exactly what you want ....
I do not know what that tells Ben, but that's how I feel. I tried the zoom, no way to make myself, I feel much more comfortable with fixed focal lengths.
Keep passing Ben, I wonder if it really better to post the images directly in the article, because there is much to charge and it's painful when you want to read the comments, there is a kind of scrolling which impossible to read the comments quietly.
December 11th, 2009 at 2:57
@ Julien: very interesting, your "apology 50mm" (incidentally, very beautiful things on your site, especially your portraits of Laos and Nepal ...)
And it allows me to be well equipped for almost all situations, weddings, concerts, sports, etc.. 
...
To be honest, I had a lot of Canon's fixed focal length, but tilting at the "yellow", I bought only 2 zooms, excellent and very versatile. I am a little touch of everything, good for nothing
But then, I find that I turn around in circles, especially in my work in marriage. In hindsight, I realize that the zoom shut myself in a method, a certain ease me a little cut of "creative research". I think this year I tried to find myself in situations / positions known for the stuff, and it is not very positive.
Well, it's not the gear that made the photographer, we all agree. But both have the tools to express ourselves, and it seems that Ben to a solution that enables him to express his creativity
Getting back to my question, a little higher, my worries is that there are some situations where it is difficult to move. That's why I'm scared to limit myself to the ultra-wide angle 50mm + + objo to portraits.
Voila!
December 12th, 2009 at 3:57
Thank you for hackers!!
Nice to stay in a version of WordPress, hackers love them.
Being under WP 2.6.5 while the latest version is WP 2.8.6, it sought to lose his job, following a transition from a hacker.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:51
I respond 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 of the sky burnt, it is a choice taken
Masden: I do not like spamming people
DED: I often speak on the subject, everyone has their choice of focal lengths, I like fixed before bringing the eye to the viewfinder I know what I framework, no surprises, no wasted my time looking framing. I'm going directly to the main
Reno: I am not convinced of the relevance of your comment in this post in particular, but your point is expected, the update is done
MickymX: I choose to be quite strict in the selection, I made a lot of pictures and make a difficult choice
For the photo in the pool at night, this is not married 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, Adrian, Isa GLENSCOLAN, Anthony Didier, Yann, Dati, Arnaud, MickymX, Guy, Kara, Christophe 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 report and return to a point [...]
December 30th, 2009 at 6:58
Hello Benjamin
Super Series as usual!
quick question, what treatment you applied to images so they are perfect (color, contrast)?
March 8th, 2010 at 11:49
Hello,
Simple question, but where is this objective tilt-you one you mention, the 80 Volna Tilt? I can not find ...
Thank you!
April 19th, 2010 at 2:39
May 1st, 2010 at 11:19 a.m.
Shooting very successful.
Allow me to compare a couple of Americans who realize the sessions of commitments in the same genus ( http://www.theblogisfound.com/) . I think this kind of photos 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 to shoot, shoot, learn and gain experience to 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 comment that only my opinion. The use of wide angle.
The newlyweds seem a bit lost in the picture and it distorts a lot.
It is a personal opinion.
The video is pro.
Regards.
Lawrence.
July 4th, 2010 at 1:58
It is a beautiful wedding, very wet, so hopefully it will be very happy. The photos are beautiful.