| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 50mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/160s |
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Folsom Street Fair One
Aperture ƒ/5.6 Camera Canon EOS 6D Focal length 105mm ISO 100 Shutter speed 1/250s -
The Brenizer Method – shallow DOF and wide angle
I love shallow depth of field and the Brenizer Method (or bokeh panorama) is an intriguing way of achieving that in a wide angle shot.
Basically, with your lens zoomed in you take many overlapping photos of your scene like you would a panorama but you don’t go for the traditional 360 degree image. It’s more like 50-90 degrees, or what a “normal” lens would see. The beauty of the technique is achieving a very shallow depth of field because your lens is zoomed in and the DOF is shallower still than it would be wide open, or so I’ve read. I haven’t managed to take such a photo yet!
Here’s a great video showing how to do it with Photoshop, but you could use Hugin or Microsoft Ice as well.
Take a look at the stunning photos here, here and here. Beautiful.
Beached Whale (2006)
The gull and the flag (2007)
Soft golden sunset (2008)
Wild Woodbine (2009)
Wolfe Tone (2015)
Streets of Cork (2016)
Sea Defences (2017)
St Peter’s Square Panorama (2018)
The Sheep of Achill Island (2021)
Smiles behind the masks (2022)
Feeling Slightly Disjointed (2024)
Luminescence in Azure (2025)