Wednesday, June 10th 2009

Bokeh Panorama Attempt

I read here about an interesting technique which I hereby rename as the Bokeh Panorama Technique.

It entails shooting several photos at a longer focal length and stitching them together to give the effect of a shorter focal length with very large aperture.

Here’s my first, rather useless attempt. (Don’t look to closely.) I just went out into the garden to shoot this, couldn’t be bothered to find anything more interesting.

Here’s one of the better shots I’ve seen made this way. Here’s another one.

To stitch the photos together I use Autostitch which is about as good as it gets, for free or for money.

Since you’re not really doing this for the resolution, it’s a good idea to choose a smaller JPEG size in your camera. That way you save quite a bit of time in the stitching and get a more manageable file size at the end.

Also, you’ll want to do this in manual mode and with manual focus for consistency between the shots.

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