The inimitable @rafithecool made her way from NYC to H-town and got lost in the woods and I just happened to be there with my camera. Here’s a lil preview of some photos we shot trying to learn a photo technique called the Brenizer Method… we shot our worst photos first and learned by doing… there will be a lot more on my insta story etc in time—here too, probably, but I thought I’d post a lil preview since we both slaved away in post trying to get this workflow down to something easy. ✅
Anyway, enjoy. The actual photos are composite—some of them are 12k by 24k… great for large format printing, terrible for cell phone screens. You can zoom in… a lot here. I’ve already cut the resolution down a lot just to get them posted—but I’m happy to pull the technique off and show you a few shots.
Basically the well-lit Rafi is shot with studio lighting on location… AD400pro studio strobe, 24x36 soft box with a grid, c-stand, sand bags etc…. Then you move the lighting gear out of the way and shoot several overlapping shots around your subject… then you use Lightroom and photoshop to stitch the photos together to compose one final image. You replace the parts around her where you’d see the light stand and soft box with the trees and background from the overlapping frame. Also, you lock your focus on your subject before you shoot the surrounding frames so you have the same exposure, depth of field, etc. and you shoot wide open. These are on a Canon l-series RF 85mm lens at f1.2–maintaining this wild depth of field across the entire image. I like the results, hope you do too.
Will post final versions once I have everything a little more grooved.