I was trying to get this a BIT more finished before the Grand Opening, but I’ve been blessed with an incredibly busy shooting schedule, and wanted to give new readers some content to look at. For now, here are some links to “Brenizer Method” content!
As some of you might have realized, despite the PhotoJojo title, this is all about LESS depth of field than is normally possible, not more.
Here are some images that show off the technique (You can also search Flickr:)
I’ve been messing around with the Brenizer Method today and I always seem to run into the same problem. On the edges of the photo I always end up with lines that don’t line up. Check out the highlighted branches on this tree as an example.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisbartow/3755582502/
I try not to move the camera too much. I think this may be an issue with CS2 photomerge that works better in the newer versions.
Any tips to fix this?
Really complicated lines can mess programs up, and CS3 is a big jump up from CS2 in terms of stitching. There are some free programs out there that actually do a pretty good job.
Very nice shallow depth of field effect. Couldn’t you get similar results from Alien SKin’s Bokeh filter? I mean, if you’re going to use Photoshop magic to combine multiple photos to get one image, would you consider it out-of-bounds to create the same thing just using a filter?
You can do blurring with a simple Gaussian filter, but it really doesn’t look the same, either in true 3-d dimensionality or rendering of highlights.
Sweet blog, Ryan!
Tried your method the other day – -check out the results:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielstark/3875249124/
The thing is, is that Elements doesn’t do a great job with the merging so I have been doing it by hand! (Ugh!) I’ll have to try out the free programs.
I stinkin’ love the new blog.
:)
Ryan, when I shoot wide open with 50mm f/1.8, there is always vignetting along the edges of the photo. After I stitch together the photos, I will get clear lines where individual photos converge, due to the earlier vignetting. Any advice on how to solve this?
Which stitching program are you using? If you have enough RAM, Photoshop will blend the vignetting away.
Have you tried Bokeh? You can find many examples on Flickr of amazing results. And no, I don’t work for Alien Skin, I just happen to think this program is pretty amazing. Comparing it to Gaussian Blur is like comparing a D3 to a disposable camera. Maybe not quite that big of a difference, but still large.
I’m glad I found your blog through PhotoJoJo – I’ll be reading it religiously…
But no filter actually knows which parts were slightly closer to you than others. Passable either with a LOT of masking or only in extreme cases
And thanks!
I am using CS3 with 2GB RAM in Vista. Is that not sufficient?
Ryan, I can’t stop reading your blog (it’s now 2am here in my country).
I’m practicing this method a lot but it seems like CS3 is having a difficult time stitching images taken indoors. What should be a 20+ photo panorama only includes 10+ thus my image is incomplete. Maybe too much similarities in the color of the walls?
Also, can you use flash with the “Brenizer Method”? The last and 3rd to the last photos seem to use it. If so, does the flash fire in every shot you take?
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