Everyone loves the look of photos shot with a lens that allows for a really shallow depth of field. Perfectly focused subjects with super fuzzy backgrounds, beautiful stuff!  Unfortunately, average lenses that give the great bokeh don’t give you a very wide angle. When you can’t fit much in the frame, every shot is a close up shot.  This is where the Brenizer method comes to the rescue!

The idea is to take multiple photos of your subject and the area all around them (the stuff you normally wouldn’t see in a close-up shot). Then put all the photos you took into your computer and let it stitch those photos together.  The computer will overlap your photos in just the right spots creating one giant image.  The results are beautiful and it’s not too difficult…

I didn’t think I could do justice explaining this method to you so thankfully Ryan Brenizer has posted a video demonstrating how he goes about this process on Facebook.

Watch Here.

Here are a few of Ryan’s photos that he took using this method. . .

Now, while I really enjoyed the information in Ryan’s video I found that it could have gone a bit further into explaining how the photos are put together.  Luckily, Brett Maxwell has posted a video on YouTube that does just this.  He essentially begins his video where Ryan’s left off. . . what happens when you get those pictures home and onto the computer.