Mackenzie King Estate Panorama

I have a bunch of editorial photography in the backlog just waiting to go to print, I can’t wait to share it with you, but until that time you get to enjoy my adorable family just a little bit more.

My parents came down for the beginning of this week to hang out with the boys, which freed my hands up to take some photos of them as we walked around Gatineau Park (just outside of Ottawa). If you want to see the cuteness then I have some up on flickr here, here and here.

As for the above photo, I’ve had some people ask me about it, it’s a panoramic image, 26 photos taken with a telephoto lens at it’s widest aperture which gives the whole setting a very thin looking depth of field. The technique was popularized by wedding photographer Ryan Brenizer and it’s even been given his name as the “Brenizer method.” And while this can be a highly effective and dramatic technique, I think it’s important to note the context of the image and surrounding and weather it actually *needs* that much work done to it. As it is, this image was shot with my 21MP 5DMKII, and the final flattened tif file is almost a full gig. Working on it took just over an hour because of the lag the image caused to my computer using almost all of my 18GB of RAM… so choose wisely. The final output is a file that, according to a calculator, created an effective focal length of 73mm f/0.7, which doesn’t actually exist.

Posted on Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 at 11:02 am. Filed under: Personal Tags: 200mm, Brenizer Method, Family, Gatineau Park, Kids, Panorama, personal RSS 2.0 feed.