Never seen this before

[sapper6fd]

He everyone.

I was at a wedding last weekend and had the privilege of being in the wedding party. The photographer that was taking the pictures of the wedding party kept doing something and I was wondering if you could all explain what it was and why she was doing this.

She was shooting with a Cannon 5D and when taking shots she would taken them in a in a box motion. Top high left, top high centre, top high right, then on to centre left, centre, centre right, then down to the bottom left, bottom centre, bottom right. Each time placing the subject in a different part of the frame. Was this for composition purposes - the best shot wins, or was it due to lighting?

Cheers,

Sapper6fd

 

[chuasam]

seeing as she was using a Canon 5D, my guess was that she was trying to get her Autofocus to work.

 

[unpopular]

Was she's operating on the 10,000 monkies shooting 10,000 frames principle?

 

[sapper6fd]

It may have been a mark II or III. I shoot Nikon so I'm not up on the cannon bodies. As for how many frames, single frame with each photo. Ah wasn't shooting in burst.

 

[Espike]

Its called the Brenizer method. It is a technique used to simulate extremely low DOF with a long lens.Woo-hoo! “Brenizer Method” (bokehrama, etc.) instructional video, produced by B&H! » Ryan Brenizer — NYC Wedding Photographer. Problem solver, storyteller.

 

[Dao]

Its called the Brenizer method. It is a technique used to simulate extremely low DOF with a long lens.Woo-hoo! “Brenizer Method” (bokehrama, etc.) instructional video, produced by B&H! » Ryan Brenizer — NYC Wedding Photographer. Problem solver, storyteller.

Thanks! I think I'd like to try it and see. Just a thought, since I need to lock the focus on the subject, maybe I should disable the 1/2 press shutter button for focus, just use the back button for focusing. So when I take the photos of the surrounding, it will not change the focus.

 

[KmH]

"extremely low DoF"?
Do you mean, extremely shallow DoF? :thumbup:

Depth-Of-Field is foreground to background, not top to bottom.
Describing it inaccurately tends to confuse those people that haven't yet fully assimilated the conscept.

And a lot of new photographers have difficulty understanding the ins and outs of DoF, and can use all the accurate descriptions of DoF they can get.

 

[DiskoJoe]

It may have been a mark II or III. I shoot Nikon so I'm not up on the cannon bodies. As for how many frames, single frame with each photo. Ah wasn't shooting in burst.

If they were using a tripod it could have been the brenizer method or maybe just a pano. Or they could have just been using spot focusing and different framing. Who knows. This is really a question you should have asked them. Im sure they would have told you if you had asked.

 

[Espike]

"extremely low DoF"? Do you mean, extremely shallow DoF? :thumbup:Depth-Of-Field is foreground to background, not top to bottom.Describing it inaccurately tends to confuse those people that haven't yet fully assimilated the conscept.And a lot of new photographers have difficulty understanding the ins and outs of DoF, and can use all the accurate descriptions of DoF they can get.

Ah, yes thats what I meant. Thanks for the correction.

 

[WilliamDSLR]

Never saw this before. Interesting. lol @chuasam

 

[davisphotos]

I'm almost certain it was Brenizer method, which I've read up on, but never really used. I would think it would be a tricky technique to use on a photo of an entire wedding party, the chances of at least one of the people moving between the first and last shot is pretty high.

 

[sovietdoc]

never heard of this before, now that I am looking at it, I wanna try this.

 

[johngalliano032]

Heard of this for the first time.

 

[DiskoJoe]

I'm almost certain it was Brenizer method, which I've read up on, but never really used. I would think it would be a tricky technique to use on a photo of an entire wedding party, the chances of at least one of the people moving between the first and last shot is pretty high.

Nobody said they were doing it correctly.

 

[sapper6fd]

Well its been a while since I posted this question and I havent had the chance to really look into it until now. It turns out it was the Brenizer Method. I've been fiddling around with it for the past little while and let me tell ya its a resource hog on the PC! But other than that its a neat little proccess. I've learnt something new and I'm sure a few other have as well!