Burgundy with ProDegustation
May 5th, 2010
At the beginning of the blog, I wanted to post a lot of things but I had little post, now I shoot very regularly and I can not find the time, it's great ... Because I have lots of topics I want to speak here, I will address them in chronological order but according to mood, and continue posting retaining the idea "one post per topic."
First: I bought a month ago on 24 mm 1.4 Nikon, basically it's a bomb unnamed, the only goal I really that hard to fully open (yes, even better my 85 1.4). I will take time to return it in a specific post, as I have already used extensively in several reports on conditions quite different.
Optical My Park is now complete and consists of: 14 mm 2.8, 24mm 1.4 (the thing that stings to death), 50 mm 1.4 (base), 85 mm 1.4 (click click portraits).
What I use almost: 16 mm 2.8 Fish (still growing in the closet), 35mm F2, 85mm Tilt, 80/200 2.8 (used last year past but it can still be used)
Well we spent the next "button gear button" it goes back on the post!
Thomas Cabrol, who spends time on my blog, created with Steven Dillingham
Company Prodégustation in 2000, in order to make the world of wine tasting and accessible to all regardless of their level.
Today the company provides 350 to 400 courses a year and owes its success to a team of trainers carefully selected for their exceptional qualities and their ability to easily transmit their knowledge.
The specifications included: team photos, portraits, ambiance, images around their tasting method (Visual aspects - Olfactory - Gustatory) and some more generic image on the world of wine.
So basically: Saturday, I covered a wedding which turned out top (if I can share the photos, I will) and Sunday morning towards Burgundy, 6 hours driving time to catch a few podcasts, large rain, the windshield wipers die after several years of loyal service (it often rains in Belgium).
Two days to follow the team Prodégustation , to discover a vocabulary to which I am quite alien ("Sun", "Clay", "tawny", ...) to share meals quite impressive ...
I will not tell you about the wines, I know nothing, but the day I will be interested, I will not hesitate to come take a course of discovery in Prodégustation . I'm not saying this to the side "I work for them, I must say something nice", but because people who share their passion in this way, I like it.
After these two days, I have basically skimming after a final base of 750 images that here is a selection:
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May 5th, 2010 at 6:26
Very nice! true of Ben in action
May 5th, 2010 at 6:29
But mess it's beautiful!! Y'en some of them are beautiful. The 24 air to be wondrous, that with Mr close to the window at 85!
In short, always hardcore FAN of your work. My eyes thank you!
May 5th, 2010 at 6:29
Great series and it looks fantastic 24mm to hear you!
In any case, it really makes you want to go for their training, congratulations and happy to read you again
May 5th, 2010 at 6:30
hehe, cool it all
then updates the blog became scarce ...
May 5th, 2010 at 6:33
Yop!
Funny, your first sentence sums up exactly what I said!
Returning to the story, I know I will not be original but it is sublime! I really enjoyed watching them and I think if the reader feels it is that is it! You're able to share your "welfare" in these photos.
Own story, varied, colorful without being too much ... living and beautiful, what! I wonder what look like the other 700!
Bravo!
Well, I leave room for others ...
a +
Tom
May 5th, 2010 at 6:42
Superb, what colors!
You can really see the atmosphere that you wanted to give this undertaking.
A technical question, you've seen a lot of different objectives with you, you have to change how often do you do for the mirror of the apn or your goals are so clean (they are incredible clarity)? ...
May 5th, 2010 at 8:10
No better than Thomas
Just Fun
Ben thank you, glad to see you and your always broken 'now' is not in vain
At the next note (I love your park Optical
)
May 5th, 2010 at 8:48
This is too much!
One of the only photographer as regular in excellence and I am working with much pleasure.
May 5th, 2010 at 8:48
Glad to see it rolling for you and it is not surprising: it is the result PRO.
Where I not catch, as for the series on the carnival of Binche is that I'm not a fan of these big spots "white burnt" too often present and "unbalance" the image. Question of personal taste and personal style. I am totally against by admiration for your management of the depth of field! Good luck.
May 5th, 2010 at 9:29
Well it's been a bin
Nice shots, still impressive technical mastery. It's fresh, it changes the usual corporate / wedding / evening in the boxes where ever I go back to these days
Good luck.
May 5th, 2010 at 11:16
What do you want me to say ...
Remains more than any store in the closet and go hang myself!!
you rule the world amigo!
May 5th, 2010 at 11:55
Hello,
A SHIFT, very nice.
In the words of Guido Bottachi, in fact I think you do not hesitate to burn out some of your pictures, but you do it very well!. I think it is rather the post-treatment, because the rendering is often regular. Finally a light main subject well and well exposed. For the rest of the image cramage is present but not annoying.
Bravo.
ALex
May 6th, 2010 at 6:51
Wine, fantastic images, that you ask for?
May 6th, 2010 at 7:49
The 1929 is simply exceptional
Beyond the technical easpect, I find the subject very well treated.
Thank you ben
May 6th, 2010 at 7:52
Hello,
I do not know exactly where you were, I think it is in Beaune but it was in my area! Nice series, I really like.
Carolina
May 6th, 2010 at 9:09
Roh it makes me feel like booze
Congratulations you've really managed to capture the intensity of the place!
Bravo
May 6th, 2010 at 11:53
Really interesting story that not very far from home. I watched for a while a new ticket here. It was worth it. Good luck.
May 6th, 2010 at 1:07
Especially impressive is the volume of photos taken on the same theme, with as much diversity ...
Since you have the D3, you do not use more than the measurement matrix, unlike the D200 which was very often able spot. The housing is for something, or your technique has changed in the meantime?
I am constantly able blip on my D200 ...
Good luck!
May 6th, 2010 at 6:56
Wonderful series! I bounce right on the comment Guido Bottacchi concerant cramés whites ... This is a subject that interests me a lot! Looking at your pictures I thought, well that's weird, full of white cramés. In this gene just my appreciation (influenced by the sacrosanct rule of non-white cramés) then I think in fact it is not so embarrassing as that. Our eye does not support either of the extreme contrast ... So why try to cheat and not to accept areas "burned". This is what gives so much energy I think your pictures!
May 6th, 2010 at 8:15
Hello,
Fan photo and wine, I recognized the trainer who gave us a very nice home course.
Sinonn very nice set of photos
May 7th, 2010 at 8:22
It is true that it makes you want to take classes especially when you know nothing about wine ..... and we do not drink!
Otherwise as usual: it's clean and pristine, so good!
And I look forward to your comprehensive test of 24 1.4
May 7th, 2010 at 9:26
Very nice well done series, treated pro. I was wondering if you had used some flash for indoor scene that I have the impression that you used natural light.
The 24mm is for me an indispensable weapon in the report. I'm waiting to see what you say in your next test.
May 8th, 2010 at 11:13
pfff! What can I say? Superb, and very professional as usual. Such clarity and light that emerge on your pictures impress me every time
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your experiences pictures. Good luck.
May 8th, 2010 at 11:31
Bravo,
for me it's all there!
And it's beautiful and soothing!
ps: the sudden I'll dare to do more pictures with my 85 to 1.8 and 2.8 @ 24mm with my 24-70 thanks to you.
May 9th, 2010 at 10:35
Incredible! Work pro!
May 9th, 2010 at 10:18
Beautiful images (and in my area) I hope you took the opportunity to drink good
May 10th, 2010 at 3:46
Bertrand: Thanks
Eric: The top 24 is!
Anthony: Yeah they are cool!
G: Ya I know, I work on 15 things at once, it starts to fall into place as I wanted! We must redo the terrace
Tom: The others are similar, it's just that I do not want to flood either
Frederic: I diaph not above F8 otherwise it's carnival side dust
MickymX: Nop gonna shit this year (in a good way eh)
Diego: Thanks, it really is too much
Guido: I like to expose clear
Pifgadget: thanks!
Greg:
Alex: I often overexposed to the pdv, default on my D3 is an exhibition in
Thomas: Yeah!
Yan: Thank msieur!
Caromeli: Indeed, Beaune
Mathias: Thanks
TheDigitalFly: Thank you!
Damien: Well, I manage my light much better, before I press the shutter with spot on face paying no attention to my background, now I run to death the lights on all fronts, the matricille becomes the basis for the first image, I spend then the rest for manual
Marc: It also depends on the screen, the white cramés seem faster on screens of laptop / poor quality, but it is clear that I love Cramer
jiquem: ca Cool!
Alex: it's deadly
Julien: No no flash for this type of story for me
Sebastian: Do not hesitate
Gabriel: At the same time when you're paid to deliver images, you expect a result
Roman: No I am not able to distinguish good wine cheap wine
May 11th, 2010 at 10:25
Great series! Out of curiosity, you work with multiple enclosures or you change all the time optical?
May 12th, 2010 at 6:42
Excellent story, especially as the shots are very varied.
Bravo!
May 13th, 2010 at 24:01
It's beautiful as usual and very varied. Work owl. I cover a tasting in 15 days, I hope to do as well. This 24mm it is a dream, I hope that Canon provides both. You'd sell your Volna not by accident that you use it more?
May 13th, 2010 at 1:23
Fiatlux: Always one case, two cameras I am still disabled
Ivan: Thank you
sebastienboudot: I keep the Volna for other uses
May 18th, 2010 at 6:58
Beautiful ...
It seems to me to recognize the hamlet of Barboron on the first photos ... Owl place!
I hope you could enjoy the Chassagne Montrachet in addition to the photograph
PS: I allowed myself to make you a little "pub" on my blog (to be published tomorrow) ... perhaps if you're starting to give me a mini "interview" on your approach to weddings, it would be nice !
May 18th, 2010 at 9:30
I thought
Good luck and I expect a post on the fashion photographs of the home page 
May 20th, 2010 at 10:49
Yes, whites are always on the edge, but the colors are a "pecho" and composition, it happens as the baby Jesus at the Hospice de Beaune ...
I noticed that you like the hand on the tip of the arm of a chair will ... greedy!
Bravo!
Ph
May 20th, 2010 at 10:52
Just a treat ...
May 23rd, 2010 at 10:14
Your photos always so beautiful. And what a light! It makes you want to do even more pictures.
May 29th, 2010 at 24:22
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
May 29th, 2010 at 11:42
What a dive! and what bokeh! I think that's really what you ... A characterizes management pdc really perfect. It's really beautiful.
What is your secret?
you choose your objos depending Bokeh? I have a D700 and I have never such beautiful pictures with my goals ...
Alex
May 31st, 2010 at 8:34
To those who talk about the stereotypes of cramage, I invite you to bend slightly and watch the pictures from a different angle. You'll find that most of the time, but it is limited cramage was the matter of 99% of the image, or even there it is very clear. So it is not burnt to the shot but just on paper voluntarily shooting or in post processing. This is what gives this particular side bright and fresh clichés. If there are still skeptics, copy the pictures and look at the histograms
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June 1st, 2010 at 10:04
truly sublime hat
June 9th, 2010 at 9:30
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS and great respect for your work. Colors, stitched, the fuzzy depths are simply admirable.
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June 14th, 2010 at 8:44
COOL mate!
June 25th, 2010 at 6:36
Hi Benjamin,
Just a question that does not have to do with these photos particularly (but we had to post somewhere), you will not ever organized photo workshop? (You'd surely fortune!)
Anyway, great job, I'm a fan ... ah, if I get married one day
June 28th, 2010 at 3:09
Yeah, careful work, as always, but here is "commercial" as marriage.
But it's a personal opinion, people's lives, it's not my thing.
You should rely on pure portrait sessions, here is a terrible lack of
see you do this kind, for that is that I appreciate most, and I am always amazed by your sessions two years ago.
July 14th, 2010 at 1:39
Haha =)
It is seen that the deal with a topic that does not know is still a challenge!
Being in the wine (which is more in Burgundy), and photographer, j'trouve funny that you could have made such choices of photos, such as the photo with the ivy and the man who looks the color of the wine, j 'would have no hesitation is the development of the glass
Although AC is logical to give a dynamic picture ..
The beauty of a cellar is in aligning the drums, the lighting, the shape of the vault ... and you shifted the perspective to destabilize all this!
Like what our photographic eye is sometimes a little too formatted ..
July 19th, 2010 at 6:41
Hello,
I am since 2007, a follower of your work. I was surprised to see your interview skills in the photo in July / August, the photographs are stunning.
The site is very nice!
Good luck!
November 25th, 2010 at 10:18
The photos are really on top, great story.
March 3rd, 2011 at 4:47
But all this is my home!
Very nice story and great photos!
April 10th, 2011 at 11:43
Where is Benjamin? No new article on this blog since May 2010 ...
May 2nd, 2011 at 10:57
I hope it will ...
Benjamin, just give us some news 
June 10th, 2011 at 2:16
Benjamin Benjamin Benjamin Benjamin! fuck back! We watch other beautiful photos and other tutorials!
July 11th, 2011 at 5:43
When will the return of Benjamin?!
Very big site redesign in preparation or absolutely more time to post?
Good job
July 15th, 2011 at 2:15
I appreciate commme reflections are sharp with this lens.
Nice story anyway. It made me want to drink good wine like ...
August 10th, 2011 at 10:01
For over a year since this blog has not been updated ... is it that Benjamin would have another site or blog?
August 10th, 2011 at 12:04
I do not think I looked anything but. A word that'll be nice to reassure us. He must be aware of our messages. Bizarre still silence.
August 10th, 2011 at 12:18
No other blog
Just a lot less time and motivation to post stuff, everything rolls 
August 10th, 2011 at 24:22
rather reassured by my side ... disappointed not to see other wonders but reassured that you go well, that's all the essential ... thank you for your answer
August 26th, 2011 at 10:34
Nice report as always ... I love Benjamin rendering and diversity of shots! Congratulations: o)
November 22nd, 2011 at 7:13
We must hire an intern to do the updates blog! ^ ^
Good luck!
January 7th, 2012 at 2:16
Hi Benjamin,
It was nice meeting you yesterday.
Just visited your site / blog, great work, keep it up!