Kim & Jeff Wedding - Bali
November 26th, 2009
2009 was a year with a lot of marriages (and it's not over) As I explain 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 many different photographic opportunities.
I shall refer in detail to one or the other marriage that I was stronger this year (of course with the permission of those concerned).
To start with this post: I just cover one wedding 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 for each other in Europe and the U.S., 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 allowed me to take my time to produce images exactly as I wanted, all In a tropical paradise.
I had already done in Belgium for some engagement 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 confidence.
Well, to be honest, this wedding coverage 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 couple. I therefore propose here a small selection of images produced for this marriage (displayed directly in the post after a few requests to that effect) selection centered on married voluntarily. 
The wedding itself was chouettement relaxed while being super classy in a rented villa on the edge of the ocean. The grooms had managed to distance the organization by hiring a wedding planner and everything was planned to build a small bridge over the infinity pool, so that Kim could cross it heading towards the stage which hosted the ceremony. Next guests, sixty close super happy with the opportunity to come to Bali for the wedding and had planned their vacation on site before or after.
I'm not going to spread on the technical side in this post, I will come back in a second post dedicated to the equipment carried and some pictures of the rest of the stay.
In summary:
A Nikon D3, a 14mm 2.8, a 50 mm 1.4, 85 1.4 and a 80 Tilt Volna I used very little, two SB that were useful during 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 find the tracking for 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 create 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, dinner, friends and all that, leaving damaging to some clothing in passing.
It was served, since it is just before the session with them, almost Tengallalang (yes, I too have struggled to say and to remember) than "luck" 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 have not been afraid of getting wet, no pun intended.
The D3 has not been badly battered during those three weeks and especially during this shoot with the couple (see the video to realize it), 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 on that? 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, absolutely gorgeous! 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
Plus they seem to have made an outstanding combination!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:08
November 26th, 2009 at 9:13
Great marriage! The photos are superb commitment, marriage and those are beautiful. The very very very nice work!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:20
You see! you post at 9:00 and 9:04 you're already a fan
there not great once 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 awesome!!!
November 26th, 2009 at 10:28
Clap, clap, clap! I am speechless! Magic! Thank you for sharing this.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:40
beautiful!
Oh to be a critical minimum, I do not like the 1165
but it really is to say sth 
It must be as great 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 rinsed well ... they own all the back
November 27th, 2009 at 1:47
Wow this slap 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 lots of great pictures but this one she rips everything 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 gorgeous!
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!
November 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! Ct wedding, high level!
The pictures ... as usual, superb, not to mention the place that has allowed you well you let go of colors and lights. I love it!
By cons, the loose sneakers for the groom .... I like way but hey, it brings to the marriage décallé side who looked strung from A to Z.
November 27th, 2009 at 24:06
Reassure me Benjamin,
It you happen 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 perhaps ...
Otherwise you we put too much water in the mouth with the "package" of photo 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 came out of the water.
Anyway good luck again for 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 the time we expected the series.
Congratulations artist.
So my marriage marriage ... we see too much and this is pretty standard (except for the part) ... but the commitment yum yum. I love
The photos of the pool, I'd like to see that which appears in thumbnail in your collage where the bride is her hair
And my favorites are the ones you made after, on the rice fields: great idea .. it's colorful, contrast, wet
These photos are alive and pay tribute to mini reporting.
Thank you and well you have fun .. (The highly technical report of the adventure)
November 27th, 2009 at 7:36
Hello,
nice update and great story.
Rich, colorful, atmosphere and energizes.
No cons there one that denotes the rest of the series (and in a sense quite important to the married (but I guess you have others in this moment: this is the the scene of the kiss (just before the glasses floating). The bdb seems a bit odd, very dull grass and sky all white.
I think the light would be very special but the device could not restore all: against the light / sun side of the device (and not in the back).
But the rest tip top.
Alex
November 28th, 2009 at 10:00
again a good job, you have a long way from MP.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:46
Ben, your pics are superb and your photography inspired. I am impressed how Continually 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 congratulations.
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 should not stop the picture, there is hope for all. This level, gives me: 1, the desire to go even Loint and 2, my 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
Bravo again Ben,
it stings, and it rocks!
Even with a D3, I would have been afraid in the rain! I look forward to receiving my 1D4
it's nice video content.
When will the follow-mail? impractical the 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 great job
kikou
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:33
Hello,
! And your logo attracted me the eye ... No, I have not copied, sworn-spit, I'm just left of the logo spot metering on my D700 
...
A long time I spend regularly in the corner to say hello ... So, hello
Quite appreciative of your work, and the freshness that comes out ... Technical mastery, originality of view, and your accomplice models (married and other). In a word, it's called TALENT.
I wish you a great start in this new life ... I'm sure there's still room for the picture quality, although the need for a strong network is certainly much more sense at the time picture where the gear was not yet democratized ... A great experience, which would motivate me to do the same almost
...
A +
DED
December 4th, 2009 at 3:20
Frankly Ben, I think you gives 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.
Great job of components, to editing, and processing
This is not to give compliments sterile, but I think you draw the photographers up and you motivates us to move forward. Anyway, that's what inspires me when I visit your blog, although 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, one variable to another photographer following habits. It's been a while since I want to take the plunge and switch to 100% fixed (I opted for a versatile solution 24-70 and 70-200 in 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 light, mainly for the full opening of creative ways, but I'm a little worried about using "in situ". When every second counts, I find it convenient to spend 24 to 70 mm in an instant ...
You notice that?
December 8th, 2009 at 9:06
I promised myself to call you when I get married (this is not yet 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 never seen elsewhere such originality and quality in wedding photographs. Again, congratulations!
Thank you for those photos that make us dream!
December 11th, 2009 at 11:32
I think it's a matter of habit. And when you have fixed objos, you work a little differently: you move a lot more, little by little you "framing in the head" and you know very quickly where you place to get exactly what you want ....
I do not know what Ben says, but that's how I feel. I tried zooming, no way to get used to it, I feel much more comfortable with fixed focal lengths.
Like the way Ben, I wonder if it really is better to post the images directly in the article because there is much to charge and it's painful when you want to read reviews, there is a kind of scrolling that from reading the comments quietly.
December 11th, 2009 at 2:57
@ Julien: very interesting, your "apology 50mm" (incidentally, some very nice things on your site, especially your portraits Laos and Nepal ...)
And it allows me to be well equipped for almost all situations, weddings, concerts, sport, etc.. 
...
To be honest, I had a lot of fixed focal length in Canon, but by switching among "yellow", as I have bought two zooms, excellent and very versatile. I'ma little touches everything, good for nothing
But then, I find that I turn around in circles, especially in my marriage work. In hindsight, I realize that the zoom lock myself in a way, a certain ease that I was a little cut of 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, this is not the stuff that makes the photographer, we all agree. But all have the tools to express ourselves, and I think Ben in a solution that allows her to express her creativity
Going 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 + + 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, it 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 will happen for the next I bought a Flip HD
Alex: I like this side of heaven burnt, it is a choice taken
Masden: I love not spam people
DED: I speak often 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 loss of time to get my framing. I go directly to the main
Reno: I'm not convinced of the relevance of your comment in this post in particular, but your point is supposed, the update is made
MickymX: I choose to be quite strict in the selection, I do a lot of pictures and make a difficult choice
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, Adrian, 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
Hello Benjamin,
Super Series as usual!
quick question, what treatment you applied to images which are perfect (color, contrast)?
March 8th, 2010 at 11:49
Hello,
Simple question, but where you find one that goal tilt 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.
I would compare to an American couple who conducts sessions of commitments in the same kind ( 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 through the magazine Lemondedelaphoto.com, and there Ben, I have more to shoot, shoot, learn and gain experience for one day hope to achieve this level!
Your images show the lightness, the freshness of the moment, this is gay ... well there are no words, it's beautiful ...
Bravo!
May 13th, 2010 at 9:53
Hello,
beautiful light ...
One comment that is only my opinion. The use of wide angle.
The bride and groom seem a bit lost in the image and it distorts much.
This is a personal opinion.
The report is pro.
Cordially.
Lawrence.
July 4th, 2010 at 1:58
It is a beautiful wedding, very rainy, so I hope 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 that photographers using only prime lenses, like you, have a look that did not work with photographers zoom.
Again, congratulations, it's beautiful!
December 2nd, 2010 at 24:46
GORGEOUS!!