Portraits

Brenizer Method - Winter

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We recently got a new lens and wanted to try it out with a technique we like to use dubbed the "Brenizer Method" or "Bokehrama".  We've talked about this technique before but just to re-cap; this method allows us to capture wide shots with a shallow depth of field (blurry background). Getting these wide shots with very blurry backgrounds are impossible with today's lenses.  In short these are portrait panoramas stitched from dozens of photos. 

Shot at 85mm f/1.4 - Brenizer Method Equivalent Lens 33mm f/0.54

Shot at 85mm f/1.4 - Brenizer Method Equivalent Lens 30mm f/0.5

Shot at 85mm f/1.4 - Brenizer Method Equivalent Lens 46mm f/0.46

Shot at 85mm f/1.4 - Brenizer Method Equivalent Lens 46mm f/0.75

Shot at 85mm f/1.4 - Brenizer Method Equivalent Lens 34mm f/0.56

Multi-Photo Stitching

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We try to create one of these shots on almost every shoot. The idea is to get wide angle shots with a shallow depth of field (blurry background and foreground). This is done by taking many photos of a subject and stitching them together in post. Imagine a photo is made up of puzzle pieces and each one of those pieces is an individual high resolution photo. When the puzzle is complete it makes up one large high resolution photo with the option of having a shallower depth of field than is optically possible with a 35mm digital sensor. Given that each photo is made up of dozens of photos stitched together it can be challenging to visualize the final product in the field and we don't get to see the results till we get home and do some work on the image. 

I found a few photos on my computer that had not yet been processed. These are the results.