An Easy Way To Do The Brenizer Method

When shooting portraits, it’s common practice to shoot with a medium telephoto lens at an aperture of f/1.8 or wider to get that dreamy bokeh effect, bringing your subject out of the background and allowing the viewer to really focus on them. This is all well and good but what if you want to shoot wider to incorporate more of the background? Anything wider than a 50mm lens and you’ll start to struggle to get that all-important bokeh. That’s where the Brenizer Method comes in. Named after the <a href="http://ryanbrenizer.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">wedding photographer</a> who popularised the method, the Brenizer Method is effectively a fancy way of stitching together multiple images to create a panorama. Whereas Panoramas are usually (though not always) landscapes, the Brenizer method is more focused on portraiture. You take several shots of your subject with a fast portrait lens and then stitch them together to create a wide angle image with the same shallow depth of field. Sounds easy, and it is, as long as you follow this simple workflow; <a href="https://medium.com/photo-dojo/an-easy-way-to-do-the-brenizer-method-4e0a53f5262c">Learn More</a>