The FAKE Medium Format Technique #75
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- In this video (#75) I show you the Fake Medium Format technique aka The Brenizer Method for creating pictures with sharp detail and incredibly shallow depth of field.
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The king of clarity, thanks for another great video Glyn
I've known of the Brenizer method for a while, but you are the first person I've seen apply this to a tight solo portrait. Gotta give it a try. Don't mind the haters, great info you're providing...free of charge. Subscribed
Terrific technique, Glyn, thanks so much! I have seen this sort of thing before, but your description of the how to is brilliant.
W Blaine Pennington Thank you
Really liked this one Glyn!! I also wondered about the focus but that's because I never heard you say "lock the focus" when I first watched the tutorial!! Great work! Thanks! 👍
Kyle Russell No worries mate ;)
Great tutorial! And for people who didn't knew this technique. The same technique can be used in every situation. Not only portraits.
Amazing technique. Thanks for sharing that. I can't wait to try it out.
I discovered Ryan Brenizer's work a short while ago and I was stunned by the detail he got by using his technique. But, your tutorial on how to merge the photos is clear and simple it was great. I love the style of your photoshop tutorials no faffing around just straight forward no nonsense information. Keep it coming.
Big Big thanks Glyn, I've dying to learn something similar to your awesome tutorial to apply it on my Landscape photography. It is truly awesome
bro. Total appreciation to your great tutorials
There are so many lame tutorials on this method on youtube. This is not one of them. Fabulous result, and very inspiring.
awesome mr.glyn .....i'm really unaware of these techniques in photoshop....thanks for letting me know.
Another helpful tip is to use back button focusing. It locks focus without having to switch anything before continuing to get the puzzle pieces. It also keeps the WB the same throughout the shots.
That was pretty darn cool. I never thought of using the pano build with a portrait. Also using the shallow DOF makes this a fantastic technique!
It's not actually anything to do with being able to focus on just the eye, a skilled photographer with good equipment can do that whatever happens. It's about being able to take wide angle shots with a shallow depth of field. Any wide angle lens will have a deeper depth of field than a telephoto lens, but if you want the compression and shallow depth of field look of a telephoto lens whilst showing a lot in the pictures frame, then that's were the Brenizer method comes in. I'd say it's best used with 85mm lenses and longer.
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Thanks heaps for that. I'd been trying this method for a while, but was never happy with the results because I'd missed a few vital points. There was nothing wrong with the way I shot the Brennie, so thanks to you I was able to go back and remerge and voila I had a useable shot. It's just a pity that the couple I shot broke up and I can't show them the Brennie I made of them.
Disclaimer: They didn't break up over my terrible first attempt at the Brenizer Method.
I've been meaning to try this technique out for a while now, another great tutorial Glyn :) ....... I think its worth noting though (correct me if i'm wrong someone) that you only need to focus for the first shot only. So, you would focus on the eye then switch to manual focus as otherwise you will re focus for every other shot, almost creating a focus stacked image image instead.
Daniel Hunt Yeah that's why I said about first shot being the face, and then lock the focus
Just brilliant! Thanks so much for sharing. I'm gone a try it tomorrow.
great technique and even better cos my friend is the model in your shot. Keep on doing what you are doing Sir.
Photo stitching has been around for years but it's a great technique and one which can be used for medium format too using advanced 100MP digital backs to generate hyper-detail images with very few captures needed
Wow. Would never have thought about the technique. Thank you.
Brilliant tutorial - thank you.
You're welcome Pete ... thanks for taking a look
I do this with wildlife photos @600mm. It creates some really nice images!
That sounds great 👍
Wow ! I have to say - I LOVE your teaching style. You are informative for those of us for whom this is New information ... yet, you don't talk down to anyone. I subscribed to your channel and look forward to All your videos. KUDOS!
Love this method. Bet Brenizer doesn't explain it as well as you do. Well done and thank you.
hi glyn!! thanks as always!!
Brilliant! Thanks yet again G!!!
Thanks Glyn ! Great tutorial, as always.
Just needed that !
Fantastic tutorial again Glyn. thanks!
Great tutorial. Well presented, well organized. well done.
Good explanation, I think I'll try it.
Great explanation Glyn, really well explained thanks.
Awesome tip, Glyn. Thank you.
thanks for the quick run down.
really great tutorial and technique.
Nice - my variation is using the software to stitch together panoramic landscape shots using multiple images. Nothing new about it but the detail is astonishing - a 10 image combo is the equivalent to using a 200 megapixel panoramic camera. I think the big leap forward is the Adobe photomerge software makes it seamless.
i will try this! thanks so much
Great video, thanks for posting! I'll have to give this a try.
Fantastic !!! Thank you
Really good technique. Thank you for the video.
SUCH AN EASY EXPLANATION!!! Thank you. Hasselblad can keep their expensive cameras.
wow... really liked the technique... thank you.
Excelent video!!! Thanks for sharing!!! Very good technique
you can also leave it on auto wb and hit exposure lock to avoid further wb changes.
Great tut, thanks for sharing. Looking forward to trying it out
I knew about the merge tool but didn't know about the fill options, it annoyed me that I had to crop the whole image and lose all that real estate from the edge areas. Cheers Glyn
Even if anyone else has done this, I'VE NEVER SEEN IT!!! So, THANKS FOR SHARING and getting it out so that I can find it! Question:... Are you using video, strobe or mono lighting when doing this?
Great tip. Thanks for sharing.
Simply Amazing ! Thanks
THANK YOU so much for this :>
You're welcome
Excellent!
That's great Glyn, thank you. Subscribed!
Thank you so much for this great tutorial, I gave this a shot with the help of my wife and using a canon 50 f1.8 cheapo, and an ND filter I got a decent shot. Not as great as yours of course, but not too bad at all !
I didn't know it could be pulled off with PS panorama. Will test it!
Thanks for the great video! :-)
Glyn. One important step you didn't mention is after you focus on say the eyes (if that is your intent) to turn the lens to manual focus and leave it for the rest of the scanned images. Otherwise you end up refocusing every frame negating any dof you are trying to create.
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Thanks a lot! Great technique!!
thank you
You're welcome Maitham
Beard game on point!
VERY helpful!
Awesome!
Awesome. Thank you
When reading the comments i see that people correct you on the name of this technique. In Dutch you would say: looking in the mouth of a given (free) horse.
I hope this wont stop you doing more videos!
Zef Markaj Not at all mate...I'm still here :)
Thanks mate
So inspiring!!!! Thanks mate, lovin' it!
Great Vid, Thanks!
Nice video well explained, but I think a 11X14 or 8X10 View camera that you would use to shoot the centerfold for Playboy magazine could do the same thing, just scan the film you’re done!
So I need to buy yet another camera and buy a scanner (?) and not do this technique with the camera I already own? Seems a bit of a waste to me.
Thanks man worked nice
Hi, nice explanation. What should I focus on with the other shots outside the head? How will they blend together if it is not in the same distance as his eyes?
5 stars! Thank You.
I make a medium format image with my 35mm 5d mark III using a canon 24mm shift tilt manual focus prime lens.........i only have to shoot 3 images, then use photomerge to join them in photoshop. Because of the size of the lens elements and how much coverage they give the camera sensor there is zero fall off in the corners and on the edges of the frame so the images stays sharp corner to corner..using the tilt feature you can really play with depth of field and modify it in some very creative ways even though it is not extremely fast at f 3.5..however, I think the results are super!...I originally bought this lens for architecture but i find it has become the most used lens in my bag of late as i am shooting everything with it...from portraits to landscapes to macro work....a very creative and versatile lens....mind you they are quite costly running around 1600$ US but I absolutely love the results i am able to get with this lens.
Wow! Thanks for showing, so easy. Inspired to go try this out myself now :-D
GREAT TUTORIAL!!! Question: how would you go about doing this using an off-camera speedlight? would you shoot the primary shot (head shot) using the speedlight, then the subsequent shots without?
+Lucious Smith I think all photos should have the same lighting. so the strobe/speelight should fire multiple times, once per photo. otherwise the face would be lit properly and everything else way underexposed, and lit by whatever overhead lighting your studio has
pretty interesting. Great video thanks!
Great vid. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing Glyn!! Any behind the scenes for the editing and light setups? looks very cool and wanted to know more!
MackiDD Bill There's a BTS post in my blog ;)
can you discuss the dave hill photography effect in photoshop?
Brilliant
Glyn Dewis great tutorial. I can't wait to try it out. Will this work with an off camera flash? If I were to set one up camera right, would I just let it keep firing as I shot the different angles?
Using continuous eye af with my Sony A7Rii it is really easy to nail the eye at 85mm 1.4 😀 Good video though
i´m use an autostitcher for that if want make super highresolution pictures.
Or if i need an wideangele photo with my MFT-camera. So i dont need buy an very expensive superwideangle lens.
Cool technique. Do you only focus on the first shot, and leave the focus as is for the rest of the shots?
Exactly
so if Im using back button focus, just keep pressing that till I get all shots right?
Why not just edited in pos
Great video. However with eye focus kind of unnecessary for Sony users...as long as your model face is aligned with the camera, you get two focused eyes with amazing detail and sharpness.
It would be amazing to see this technique in conjunction with an actual medium format camera at a wide aperture. The eyes would be the only thing in focus. 👀
this is much about details then a sharpness... i think ... i wonder when you shoot different part of body did you use focus manually ? i wonder what about focus point during shoot...
will u give the tutorial for retouching this portrait?
I understand for your first shot the focal point are the eyes. What is your focal point on the other photos taken?
Really interesting to see this used for a portrait, I love the look. I am guessing you didn't use studio strobe for the portrait am I correct ?. I don't think my set up would be consistent enough to allow seamless stitching. Great video and thanks for putting it up.
Hi There, thanks for commenting. Yeah studio strobe was used for this....Elinchrom ELC Pro HD 1000 with the 135cm Octa.
Thanks for looking in ;)
Glyn Dewis wow, fantastic work and great channel. Instant subscribe and thanks for the inspiration
pretty cool
Great tutorial! Suscribed
Nice Images in the Background :-)
Hi Glen! Thanks for an amazing tutorial! One question I have in mind. I shoot my portraits with 85mm 1.4, will it give me distortion due the short focal length? What should I do about it? I have not tried this yet, but I absolutely will!
Antti...Give it a try and see how you get on with the focal length. TBH I shoot 99% of the time at the moment at 85mm.
How does the program know where each photo is properly positioned???
When you do a typical panorama, it's a simple matter of left-to-right alignment. But in this process, it's also aligning photos properly in a vertical dimension. Is there some way the program knows how the camera was orientated in each shot?
Hi! Cool vid. Quastion... first pic from face itself and focus in eyes. After? Where the focus goes? Set it manual and take advanced photos? or?
Lacc Lacc I mention in the video that you lock the focus; then take the remaining pictures ;)
great!
Could you do this in the opposite way for hyperfocal distancing? Take lots of shallow depth of field photos to produce a large depth of field. If light levels are too low to take an f11 shot, you could take lots of f2.8 shots and combine them for a sharply focused landscape shot throughout the depth of field. Would that work in the same way?
+Kieron Middleton That is called "focus stacking" and is commonly used for macro photography. For landscape work it shouldn't really be necessary. If you need a small aperture use a tripod and a long exposure.
Oh my god why did you record in interleaved format? My eyes hurts
Yeah, I was going to post the same . . . Hey! But you did it first . . . 3 years ago . . . hahaha
will the focusing filter effect also do the same thing or at least similar ?
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Hi and thanks for a great video. Silly question, but will the fill option (magic wand>untick contiguous>select>modify>expamd etc)used on the panoramic view also work for a regular panoramic shot of, for example, a landscape shot?
***** Depends on the picture...give it a try and see is the best option
When I first saw this, I thought it was a stupid idea because getting that shallow depth of field isn't very hard. Especialy in the studio. Then I see that you have that huge image with that shallow depth of field, so it's pretty cool. But I wonder, how does your model stay still for all those shots?
Cheers Bill. To be honest taking all the shots for this is actually quite quick so no problem for the model...well...in a comfortable pose anyway. I don't do this technique that often but when I do, it works great on big pictures like this. Cheers for looking in ;)
Okay.... I'm replying to my own comment. How does the model stay so still? I guess I'll have to try it and find out. yeah, cool idea. Hey... maybe I'll make a youtube video about it!! :)
I always seem to have trouble doing this technique. The pictures when I go to line them up never seem to line up right. I've even gone to using a tripod and still get misaligned shots.
I think i asked this before but im not sure. Are you focus and recomposing for every shot? Or did you just lock focus on 1 eye but for every subsequent shot did you just move camera around? Ive always been confused with this technique.
Frank