After watching one of your earlier vids on the brenizer I used it on a during my daughter's cap & gown photo shoot with her sitting across a reflecting pool from me with a Sony A7RIII. Which, by the way, was a HUGE file! But came out great!!!
if the background is mostly static like it was here, you can take just one center photo of the couple, and then take all the adjacent ones with the couple juuust out of frame, but still enough of the main photo in frame so that the software recognizes it for the stitching process. That way you can have the couple switch up poses and you can take as many photos of them as you like to later just replace any desired pose as the center piece of the composition. That or if you dont need/want more poses, you can have the couple not wait until youre done shooting the surrounding.
I just had a senior session today, and tested this technique out. WOW I am BLOWN AWAY!! Thank you for always explaining things in a clear, yet concise manner!!!
I always forget about this method and must use it more. It’s so effective and creates a stunning look. I try to achieve the same result with my 16 1.4, but it just doesn’t match up! Great video 👍
First time hearing of this technique in my 21 years of doing environmental portraiture, but I have seen images that look like this and always assumed it was shot with a medium format camera! Man I wish I would’ve seen this years ago when I was at the peak of doing photography, now I just do it for a select few, but I might have to add this to my bag of tricks if I ever decide to take on new clients again.
I slowly professed from using this in digital to using this in film as well, by stiching together multiple 35mm negatives everyone thinks I'm actually shooting medium or large format film. This is a beautiful technique. I feel like many people overdo it though. I like it a bit more subtle.
Nice to see the technique with this lens. But one thing to add (when you want perfect results) watch out for parallax errors and movement caused by wind. They both cause things like lines (like branches) not being stitched correctly. Wind is of course something you don't control, but parallax issues can be avoided by using a panoramic head like a nodal ninja which let the front of the lens turn from a single point. With this it's even possible to use this technique on close ups!
Oh, Man! I just tried this at my home for the first time in the culdesac I live in and it looks awesome! I will definitely try it with one of my clients soon. Awesome! Thanks, John!
Definitely going to try this when I get a 80mm currently only have a kit and 50mm 1.8, but panoramic pic's are a favorite. Thank you for all the tips. I just got hired as a commercial photographer.!
I saw something similar before digital cameras and LR.. you would use a 50mm eq on a tripod and pivot the camera around a point a bit in front of the camera body to avoid parallax issues - and then stitch the photos together. Now it’s easier... 🤓
Thanks for this, I never considered this before! I don’t shoot portraits but I’m definitely trying this for wider product photography layouts and interior scenes. I like the idea of keeping a more ‘true’ perspective while adding greater depth. Appreciated, Sir 🙂
Oh yeah this should be awesome for product photography. It'll also be a little easier to pull off since your subject won't be moving at all. Keep in mind you really can do it with any focal length. So even just something like 50mm would work as well. Especially for product stuff.
Great video. Didn’t know this technique had a name. Definitely learned from this video. Well thought out explanations and you kept the video moving. I have a senior shoot tomorrow i will use this on. Cheers!
REALLY good tutorial and great photos! I knew about this method but didn't quite understand the process. You explained it so well and I'm ready to try for myself. Thanks!
Thanks so much John, I am gonna try it with my kids I think, ahead of any client work. Looks good! I have never used BBF before, so will give that a try also. Thanks
Back button focusing is so very useful. You are going to enjoy it. Especially when you are shooting manual. Sounds kind of contradictory but give it a shot.
John another great video. I'm not a wedding or studio portraiture photographer. My focus is street and commercial aka food and restaurants. But I have to support your channel, one because there aren't many Black channels in the UA-camverse, and two, you provide great advice for fellow Fuji shooters and photographers regardless of the camera ecosystem they've bought into. Keep up the great work brother. We see you.
@@jbivphotography when you live in the country you have to be creative. 🤣🤣🤣 I live in DC and work between there and NYC. So I'm in the city all the time. Check me out on IG, @streetphonicz to see some of my work. I shoot Fujifilm X-E3 and X-H1 primarily with vintage manual lenses, and a lot of film on rangefinders and vintage SLR's. Keep shining bruh! 👋🏿👋🏿👋🏿
Great video and great job 👍. I find it somewhat easier to just switch to manual focus here. Even if you don't want to do the actual focusing with manual focus you can pre-focus with single or continuous for just one second, then flip the switch for manual focus and don't touch anything else, then shoot away with confidence that nothing will change. Then flip the switch back when done. But if single point is easier for you then that works great too. Same result, different way. 👍
Another thing you can do which I tried once is just do a video with high shutter speed and just pan really quick. Takes longer and harder to do in post and sometimes bad results (maybe better if I practiced more) but end result can get you the source pictures you want in just one second of people standing still.
Nice tutorial. Three hints though: Not using continuous af and using back button focus are two pieces of advice that do the same thing - prevent focus shift. The whole point of back button focus is to be able to always stay in continuous. For a non- back button focuser, af lock is the best way to shoot any panorama. Using full manual isn't necessary. One can simply use af/ae lock in any of the auto/semi auto modes. In camera WB is completely irrelevant when shooting raw. Having the subjects stand still is neither necessary nor recommended. Not necessary, because one can just take the first shot as a tight vertical of the subjects and layer that single shot into the panorama later. Not recommended because without that single subject shot, there's a high chance they'll move slightly and cause blur or artifacts when stitching images together. The safest method is to take a tight, single shot of the subjects and then actually let them step out of the frame for the rest of the panorama. And one more sidenote: I feel like you're not mentioning the most common mistake beginners make with this, which is undershooting. To make any panorama work, it's really important to overshoot around the edges because there will be a lot of necessary cropping in post.
yes.. the final result here could've been done with a fast long lens without stitching.. The whole point of the method is getting the bokeh that is otherwise not possible with a single shot. that means, getting close and framing the couple tight and capturing bokeh in all the other shots.
This is very cool. I can use this with other things other than for portraiture. You just open my eyes to a brand new technique. Thank you. My Viltrox 85/1.8 for Fuji it's going to get a good workout trying this technique.
Great video! Your explanation and presentation of the technique was concise and informative, glad to have stumbled upon this video to introduce me to your channel. Thanks for the valuable knowledge this provides, will definitely be trying this out very soon.
Thanks for this tutorial John, I had done a few Panorama Bokeh photographs/brenizer method way back in 2011 with my nifty fifty Cannon lens using the free Microsoft Image Composite Editor software to stitch with good results. Watching this has given me a re kick start again :-)
Awesome! It's really fun to do. Just make sure to take that first safety photo so that if for some reason the computer doesn't want to combine it you at least still have a photo.
Love it but from a software tweak I wish you could select the main image for the others to follow. That way you can select your pose and then the other images will add themselves to it making it wider
I actually think there wouldn't be too much room for error. Since you just have to set your focus and take the shots. And then also for the most part your exposure wouldn't change. It would be pretty hype on Film. Obviously I would say to try and take less photos but I think you could totally do it.
That will be awesome! Just remember if there is any movement in the photos that will translate to the panorama and people might have doubled heads or arms and hands and things.
Another way to do this is shoot a ‘plate’ of the background without them in it, but focused on a certain spot, then have the couple stand in that exact spot and just add them in in post.
Man this is sooo good! This is top notch photography! It’s really cool to see your channel growing so fast. I remember the time you only got a few likes on your videos. Keep it up
Do you see yourself using the BRENIZER METHOD during photo session or does it seem too involved and pointless?
After watching one of your earlier vids on the brenizer I used it on a during my daughter's cap & gown photo shoot with her sitting across a reflecting pool from me with a Sony A7RIII. Which, by the way, was a HUGE file! But came out great!!!
Thanks for the tutorial.
Nice clear explanation, but the process seems too contrived and stifling for me to use.
This looks great, could it be done without the back button focus by using manual focus?
yes
That edit at the end was so satisfying. Loved the final result!
I love a good sped up edit in a video. Glad you enjoyed everything!
The best tutorial about brenizer out here.
This is awesome. I'm gonna try it with my Fuji 90mm.
OOOOOoooo that's going to look awesome.
How did it turn out?
if the background is mostly static like it was here, you can take just one center photo of the couple, and then take all the adjacent ones with the couple juuust out of frame, but still enough of the main photo in frame so that the software recognizes it for the stitching process. That way you can have the couple switch up poses and you can take as many photos of them as you like to later just replace any desired pose as the center piece of the composition. That or if you dont need/want more poses, you can have the couple not wait until youre done shooting the surrounding.
I just had a senior session today, and tested this technique out. WOW I am BLOWN AWAY!! Thank you for always explaining things in a clear, yet concise manner!!!
Thank you for breaking it down so eloquently John! I can't wait to have the opportunity to practice this. :)
I always forget about this method and must use it more. It’s so effective and creates a stunning look. I try to achieve the same result with my 16 1.4, but it just doesn’t match up! Great video 👍
This is the best of both worlds!
Good technique communicated really well. It reminds me of the look you get with medium format film cameras.
Dude.... wow, this is so amazing, thank you. Absolutely going to use this.
Just came across this and can't wait to get out and try. Thanks for the great lesson.
That's awesome. I hope it works out well for you!
Hi! I did this and it worked so well 😊
Wonderful!
First time hearing of this technique in my 21 years of doing environmental portraiture, but I have seen images that look like this and always assumed it was shot with a medium format camera! Man I wish I would’ve seen this years ago when I was at the peak of doing photography, now I just do it for a select few, but I might have to add this to my bag of tricks if I ever decide to take on new clients again.
Everything with you is 50 YEARS!!
😂😂😂😂😂
This is such a great tutorial on the Brenizer Method. I have always admired this way of enhancing portraits and I'm excited to try it out for myself!
Glad you enjoyed it. The technique really is so fun.
I slowly professed from using this in digital to using this in film as well, by stiching together multiple 35mm negatives everyone thinks I'm actually shooting medium or large format film. This is a beautiful technique. I feel like many people overdo it though. I like it a bit more subtle.
Thanks John! Very simply done, well done! I need to try this soon!!!
Go for it!
Nice to see the technique with this lens. But one thing to add (when you want perfect results) watch out for parallax errors and movement caused by wind. They both cause things like lines (like branches) not being stitched correctly. Wind is of course something you don't control, but parallax issues can be avoided by using a panoramic head like a nodal ninja which let the front of the lens turn from a single point. With this it's even possible to use this technique on close ups!
Pretty cool method/technique. I will be adding this to my arsenal. Thanks John! Keep up the great work!!!
Thanks for watching, appreciate it
Loved this video! I am going to try this out tomorrow with my couple!!
Awesome! It's super fun!!
Oh, Man! I just tried this at my home for the first time in the culdesac I live in and it looks awesome! I will definitely try it with one of my clients soon. Awesome! Thanks, John!
I loved this technique, and what a great final shot. Thank you for sharing. I can't wait yo try it out.
It really is so fun to do!
This was super dope...i needed this tip. thanks John
Awesome! Jump out there and give this technique a try it's super fun.
wow, thank you John. very cool technique!
Nice technique, thank you for shearing your experience with us.
Definitely going to try this when I get a 80mm currently only have a kit and 50mm 1.8, but panoramic pic's are a favorite. Thank you for all the tips. I just got hired as a commercial photographer.!
Love it! Definitely going to use this.
Totally do it. It's one of the best little "tricks in the bag" you can have at a session.
Thank you, Sir John! I really need this kind of method!
It's a fun shot to get
it is cool, love the soft music and simplicity of presentation.
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it.
Wow game changing for me. Cant wait to try this
It’s so fun. It also leaves you with much higher resolution images. You can make HUGE prints of these photos.
That’s awesome. Thank you for this. I’m so going to try this as soon as I can.
Have fun with it!
This is an amazing technique. Can't wait to try this out on my crop sensor to see how this turns out! Thanks John.
I've seen you take the photos in one of your other videos but I never really knew hot to put them all together. Will try it today
great video John I will be sure to give it a go
Super clear explanation. Really great technique!
Awesome. I'm glad I was able to explain it well!
Love this! Will definitely be trying!!
That was just amazing!.I clearly didn't know the power of lightroom. Thank you so much for this!!!
It’s a really cool technique. So many different things you can do in Lightroom.
I saw something similar before digital cameras and LR.. you would use a 50mm eq on a tripod and pivot the camera around a point a bit in front of the camera body to avoid parallax issues - and then stitch the photos together. Now it’s easier... 🤓
thanks man new technique for my event next week 😁😁😁
This is so awesome! I learned something new today! Thank you so much!
This is amazing!! Thanks for sharing John
Thanks for this, I never considered this before!
I don’t shoot portraits but I’m definitely trying this for wider product photography layouts and interior scenes. I like the idea of keeping a more ‘true’ perspective while adding greater depth.
Appreciated, Sir 🙂
Oh yeah this should be awesome for product photography. It'll also be a little easier to pull off since your subject won't be moving at all. Keep in mind you really can do it with any focal length. So even just something like 50mm would work as well. Especially for product stuff.
So excited to use this during my next session. :)
It really is the funnest thing to do. I'm a huge fan.
Can't w8 to test it..love your UA-cam work
Thank you so much. I'm glad you're enjoying it.
Concerning parallax issues, you can mount the camera on a tripod and use a wildlife gimbal to shoot the images.
THANK YOU! I'll try it on my Fuji xt20
Awesome. It’s going to be awesome!
So cool! I'm so glad that your channel is doing so well and you can take the time to create videos like this. Seriously great work.
Thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and hope you learned a little bit!
Hey man thanks.I have the gfx50s ii.I go to try it.I love it.
Awesome! You're going to love it. It's really amazing when you do it with the GFX system.
Just Awesome!! can't wait to try it
Great video. Didn’t know this technique had a name. Definitely learned from this video. Well thought out explanations and you kept the video moving. I have a senior shoot tomorrow i will use this on. Cheers!
This was SO cool!! I have never seen this method before and am absolutely so excited to try it!! Thank you for teaching me something new today!
REALLY good tutorial and great photos! I knew about this method but didn't quite understand the process. You explained it so well and I'm ready to try for myself. Thanks!
Awesome! Glad to hear that my explanation was smooth. Now get out there and make some awesome photos.
Thanks so much John, I am gonna try it with my kids I think, ahead of any client work. Looks good! I have never used BBF before, so will give that a try also. Thanks
Back button focusing is so very useful. You are going to enjoy it. Especially when you are shooting manual. Sounds kind of contradictory but give it a shot.
That looks awesome! I have not previously seen this method. Thank you for sharing. It would be nice to see a wide lens comparison, like the 16mm f1.4.
John another great video. I'm not a wedding or studio portraiture photographer. My focus is street and commercial aka food and restaurants. But I have to support your channel, one because there aren't many Black channels in the UA-camverse, and two, you provide great advice for fellow Fuji shooters and photographers regardless of the camera ecosystem they've bought into. Keep up the great work brother. We see you.
I appreciate that so much! I really do. I love street photography. I wish I lived in an area where I could get some good stuff like I used to in NYC.
@@jbivphotography when you live in the country you have to be creative. 🤣🤣🤣 I live in DC and work between there and NYC. So I'm in the city all the time. Check me out on IG, @streetphonicz to see some of my work. I shoot Fujifilm X-E3 and X-H1 primarily with vintage manual lenses, and a lot of film on rangefinders and vintage SLR's. Keep shining bruh! 👋🏿👋🏿👋🏿
I am definitely gonna try this technique.
Great video and great job 👍.
I find it somewhat easier to just switch to manual focus here. Even if you don't want to do the actual focusing with manual focus you can pre-focus with single or continuous for just one second, then flip the switch for manual focus and don't touch anything else, then shoot away with confidence that nothing will change. Then flip the switch back when done.
But if single point is easier for you then that works great too. Same result, different way. 👍
Another thing you can do which I tried once is just do a video with high shutter speed and just pan really quick. Takes longer and harder to do in post and sometimes bad results (maybe better if I practiced more) but end result can get you the source pictures you want in just one second of people standing still.
Nice tutorial. Three hints though:
Not using continuous af and using back button focus are two pieces of advice that do the same thing - prevent focus shift. The whole point of back button focus is to be able to always stay in continuous. For a non- back button focuser, af lock is the best way to shoot any panorama.
Using full manual isn't necessary. One can simply use af/ae lock in any of the auto/semi auto modes. In camera WB is completely irrelevant when shooting raw.
Having the subjects stand still is neither necessary nor recommended. Not necessary, because one can just take the first shot as a tight vertical of the subjects and layer that single shot into the panorama later. Not recommended because without that single subject shot, there's a high chance they'll move slightly and cause blur or artifacts when stitching images together. The safest method is to take a tight, single shot of the subjects and then actually let them step out of the frame for the rest of the panorama.
And one more sidenote: I feel like you're not mentioning the most common mistake beginners make with this, which is undershooting. To make any panorama work, it's really important to overshoot around the edges because there will be a lot of necessary cropping in post.
yes.. the final result here could've been done with a fast long lens without stitching.. The whole point of the method is getting the bokeh that is otherwise not possible with a single shot. that means, getting close and framing the couple tight and capturing bokeh in all the other shots.
Very instructive. Thanks. I’ll definitely try this.
This is very cool. I can use this with other things other than for portraiture. You just open my eyes to a brand new technique. Thank you. My Viltrox 85/1.8 for Fuji it's going to get a good workout trying this technique.
OOOOOO that 85 is going to get some amazing results.
Wow didn't know lightroom could do this. Thought u were gonna merge them in photoshop. Thanks! U just got a subscriber
I definitely want to try it man! Super helpful! Have a great week man!
Such a cool little technique. Especially if you have a good spot for it.
Great video! Your explanation and presentation of the technique was concise and informative, glad to have stumbled upon this video to introduce me to your channel. Thanks for the valuable knowledge this provides, will definitely be trying this out very soon.
Thanks for this tutorial John, I had done a few Panorama Bokeh photographs/brenizer method way back in 2011 with my nifty fifty Cannon lens using the free Microsoft Image Composite Editor software to stitch with good results. Watching this has given me a re kick start again :-)
Awesome mate👏👏 i will try at my first chance, thanks!
It really is a cool technique. You’re going to love it.
I love this idea!! Definitely going to try it at my next session! Thank you for sharing!
Loved this video! Lots of useful information and super inspiring! Can’t wait to go out and try it myself!
Awesome tutorial! And that lens makes it all look so sharp and cleannn
Yes! Thanks for sharing this. Im gonna try it out for sure! Hopefully use it in my next session!
Awesome! It's really fun to do. Just make sure to take that first safety photo so that if for some reason the computer doesn't want to combine it you at least still have a photo.
Outstanding! Thank you.
You're welcome. Glad you liked it.
Really awesome method 👍👍👍
Love it but from a software tweak I wish you could select the main image for the others to follow. That way you can select your pose and then the other images will add themselves to it making it wider
Love the colors for the photos! And I love the way you break down this technique! So clear and understandable
Awesome! I'm glad you enjoyed it and this was helpful!
Thanks for the weekend plans!
Awesome. Give it a try and let me know how it works out.
Love your channel and your work, man! Thanks and keep the awesome videos coming!
Trying this weekend
Nice! Let me know how it works out for you.
Thank you for the tutorial. I can't wait to give this a go next shoot!
Trank you for this Video, i love this Look 👍
Love this technique, what a great video
Good job team
loved this video. thank you for sharing.
You're welcome! I hope you've had a chance to use this technique.
Your shirt made me think about doing this on film and then making a collage out of the prints. Obviously much more room for error, but could be fun!
I actually think there wouldn't be too much room for error. Since you just have to set your focus and take the shots. And then also for the most part your exposure wouldn't change. It would be pretty hype on Film. Obviously I would say to try and take less photos but I think you could totally do it.
Gonna try it out, thanks for the tip
Sounds good. Let me know how it works out for you.
Yooo great tutorial! Glad I found your channel 🔥💪🏽
Some of the newer Fuji cameras have an auto white lock that you could use instead of setting your white balance in Kelvin.
Thank you so much for the tutorial, just learned a new photography technic, this will really help.
Awesome! I'm glad this was helpful!!
AMAZING - You just saved me a bunch of money. I will just use my 50mm for a panorama in my upcoming holidays. Amazing!
That will be awesome! Just remember if there is any movement in the photos that will translate to the panorama and people might have doubled heads or arms and hands and things.
these look so cool! thanks for sharing this!
You're welcome. I really love taking these type of photos and I hope it helped others learn it as well.
Really a great tip thanks
you just earned a new sub my man wow
Great, thank you for sharing. Looking forward to trying this. Keep up the great work.
Thank YOU for watching. I hope you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing, I liked the idea 👍
Thanks for watching! It's a cool little technique.
Wow. So cool. Thanks.
I love it! Going to try it this weekend's wedding. :)
Awesome!! It's super fun to do and the results are always amazing.
nice.. thank you for sharing..
Another way to do this is shoot a ‘plate’ of the background without them in it, but focused on a certain spot, then have the couple stand in that exact spot and just add them in in post.
That's dope! Thank you sir!
You’re welcome. Give it a try it’s a really fun technique.
Man this is sooo good! This is top notch photography! It’s really cool to see your channel growing so fast. I remember the time you only got a few likes on your videos. Keep it up
Thanks a ton! Also thanks for sticking around and watching the content.
Thank you for sharing the trick. Good luck, bro!
Thanks a bunch! I'm glad you enjoyed it as well.