Originally posted by baro-nite Successful indeed, and a good demonstration that it's not about the sheer quantity of exposures, it's much more about the composition and, especially, lighting.
Thanks, and indeed I think your point holds up when compared to this next shot (and it's cropped variants), which arguably has less 'brenizer feel' despite comprising of literally 10x as many shots.
What I believe constitutes to a
good Brenizer effect is to have a good amount of distance from the subject to their nearest background items. The reason it works well (with such few shots) with my daughter is because there is little behind her except grass and eventually a wall, but they are yards away. The shot below was taken with the same lens and aperture as before, the Takumar 135/2.5 @ f2.8
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Eric
It is our neighbour Eric's last day on this street, tomorrow he moves to Canberra to be close to his sister and extended family.
Eric has lived in his home (pictured behind) for over 40yrs, he is known all around town and is held in high regard.
He will surely be missed.
I took this Brenizer shot to try and capture him and his house in all it's glory. It's a mammoth stitch of 67 jpgs, and LR even refused to open it (had to shrink it in PS). (It's original file size was 450mb, it stands at 90mb now and 150megapixels roughly).
The images to follow are crops of the same stitched shot, they illustrate how much detail is in the final image.
I am personally studying the Brenizer method, finding that sweet spot where the Medium Format look starts to appear, I believe you can go too large (such as this shot) and lose the effect, but closer crops have that 3D effect more.
In future I shall try the technique where the subject is comprised of stitching rather than a still from one frame.
16:9 crop
Portrait crop