Brenizer's Method

I came to know about this method a year back or so. This technique is developed by a wedding photographer named Ryan Brenizer when he was on his honeymoon ! ! The technique involves taking multiple pictures with a very shallow depth of field and then stitching them together using photoshop or autostitch.exe or similar tool.

I recently started trying this technique for portraits and below are 2 images that I tried so far.
First one is of my Twin niece which was taken in my home town.


Go here to view few more photos of the twins.

The second one is of my wife taken at K.Gudi jungle lodges.




I am not explaining this technique in detail here as there is already a good article by Richard Bui here

You can also visit Ryan's blog here

In the blog above, example images were taken using 85 mm f/1.4 lens which gives a very shallow depth of field. Since I don't have such expensive lens, I instead tried using Nikon 50mm f/1.8 lens and results were satisfying enough.