Just thought I'd give him a shout out! The link is to a blog article he wrote on the subject (which has been dubbed by some people on flickr as the 'Brenizer method') and has links to some of his photographs using it."įeatured Comment by beau: I've been stitching to increase image size for about five years now. All Rights Reserved.įeatured Comment by Jonathan Irwin: " Ryan Brenizer, a New York City wedding photographer, and well known to many on flickr, is one photographer who has truly mastered the handheld panorama trick in my opinion. Original contents copyright 2010 by Michael C. Note: Links in this post may be to our affiliates sales through affiliate links may benefit this site. Nothing to scoff at.Ĭall it pseudo medium format-the poor man's (and woman's) Leica S2, or Hasselblad H4D, or Pentax 645D. But it's available to everybody who can afford a copy of Photoshop Elements. And there are limitations to every tool, same as it ever was. Of course, making multiple-shot stitched images isn't quite the same as having a single-shot large-sensor camera-but then, it's a lot cheaper. Personally I think it would be entertaining to figure out how to do action shots this way-you'd just need to figure out how to compose a picture of two or more frames that have all the action in just one of the frames. I think it would be right-sized at about 40 inches wide, which (by coincidence) happens to work out to just about 360 ppi. It was created from six or seven (I think) vertical 14-MP files, and the original is 63 MP, bigger by half than the 645D's single files. This is a pano (forgive me, I've used this as an illustration before-I just don't have many merged files to show) but the point is that it's bigger than most digital medium-format files. My Photoshop skills are not adequate to do what I want to do with the best of those, although I keep meaning to find and hire someone who could do the "merge" successfully-but, at five 24-MP vertical frames across, it's safe to say the resulting picture would beat most single-capture large-sensor camera files for size and enlargeability.Īs Scott says, there's nothing that says you have to create panoramas when merging several files why not merge, say, three vertical shots to give yourself a normal aspect ratio but a wider angle of view than is native to your lens? Why not stitch two horizontals, one above the other, and crop it to make a square? I shot several multi-segment panoramics with the Sony A900 while I had it. The now-common stitching options available in a number of image editors do well with side-by-side shots of distant and semi-distant non-moving subjects, even when shot handheld. Scott talks about using shift lenses with the camera on a tripod for perfect perspective, but of course in many instances you don't even need to do that. But with the cheapest medium-format digital camera causing a small sensation at a "mere" $10,000, it might be worthwhile to make more of a pother about this way of working. Not perfect in all situations, but more than workable for my MF inclinations-still life and landscapes. How does that help? Well, my 24x36 sensor can be used as a 24x36, a 24圆0, a 48x36, and a 36x36 square, all with a shifted shot made of two perfectly, and automatically, alignable images. Now a Canon 21mp "full frame" can be had for $2,000 and any of the four focal-length tilt-shift lenses can be had for less than that, many considerably less. I shot medium-format film until I got a shift lens for my 24x36 digital. A TOP reader named Scott had this to say the other day when the Pentax 645D announcement came out:
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