brenizer method

Ryan Brenizer has been making portraits with extremely shallow depth of field by stitching together multiple frames. He has some good videos and explanations on how to shoot these, but I've seen many questions on how to stitch them together, hopefully this helps.

I have now created a calculator to figure the effective focal length and aperture: http://brettmaxwellphoto.com/Brenizer...

Here is a little how-to from the master: http://www.ryanbrenizer.com/blog/2011...

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[intheworkseg6]

My picture stitched together well but there were scratchy white lines all over it..looked like an antique picture? whats this from

[Brett Maxwell]

you're using Photoshop, aren't you? it's just showing you where it stitched, those lines aren't actually on the file and it looks fine if you zoom in or save it as a jpg, tiff, psd, etc.

[andagii]

Would there or is there any possibility of stitching together on GIMP?

[Brett Maxwell]

I haven't used GIMP in yeaaars, but from a quick google search it sounds like you need a plugin to do it, and there looks to be several available.

[MrTaemobig]

sorry noob question do you need lightroom or you can just go to cs4 file-automate-photomerge and cs4 will blend it then manually crop?

[Brett Maxwell]

You don't need Lightroom. I shoot RAW, so I use Lightroom to make sure all the settings are identical between the shots before I merge them in photoshop. You could do this in a different RAW editor or shoot JPG. If you shoot JPG, make sure that you're not only using manual exposure but also manual whitebalance.

[Gavin Turner]

You should make more tutorials, i really like your style and like your clear concise explanation. Well done.

[Brett Maxwell]

First, you contradict yourself, is it possible to go below f1.0 or not?

You're correct about Leica creating an f0.95, but you're wrong that those apertures have NO depth of field. Do a little research and you will discover there have been a number of still and cinema lenses with apertures between f0.7 and f0.95.

[ThePinkChilli]

Love it. Thank you for this.

[Ignacio Ledesma]

Hola Brett recién descubro el Metodo Brenizer. Pregunta básica: que diferencia hay con hacer la toma, duplicar la capa, desenfocar con alguna herramienta de Ps al máximo y luego recortar o borrar solo la imagen en foco? Disculpame por lo básico de la pregunta. Y otra: como se hacen las tomas con una lente fija?

[patricia2952]

Here's my constant question about this method and achieving that shallow DOF.

#1 - If I am using my 85mm at 1.8 ot even 2.0-2.5, during the day, that lets SO much light it. My photo whould be totally washed out. But if you up that to close light out to say, 5.0, there goes your shallow DOF, and the photo ends up looking like just a regular one shot, even with ISO at 100. How can you shoot a daytime image with this method and a low Fstop like 1.8??

[Anthony Tran]

correct :)



[Anthony Tran]

What's your budget? :)

[Anthony Tran]

How much overlap do you need between each shot? I seem to be getting some of my photos omitted during the photomerge and thought lack of enough overlap might be the problem. Thanks in advance and for the clear video!

[dodo dl]

Nice video thanks ,, I like photographing actually I want to buy a camera and start working as a photographer but I need your advice like for a start what camera should i buy I have a a small budget and i'm thinking of buying a Semi-professional camera any Recommendations.

[Ivan Dobrev]

So I suppose when you are shooting you gotta keep your focus at manual that way the dept of field stays at one place.. cuz technically if you are auto focus and shooting the images away from your subject the camera will focus on the background and when stitched it will look weird

I'm a right?

[intheworkseg6]

Awesome..thanks.