Stitched portrait

Doubled the size of the full-frame sensor with the Brenizer method... This is a 23 megapixel picture I took with my 12 megapixel camera. How? I shot and stitched 6 frames* to make this portrait. [If you're wondering why it's not closer to 72 megapixels, the explanation is that I shot the component frames at a lower resolution setting to make processing easier for my computer.]

I used a 50mm f/1.4 lens to shoot this. For this particular shot, the method helped me turn it into a 28mm f/0.78 lens. [ There's an online calculator created and provided by Michigan wedding photographer Brett Maxwell. www.brettmaxwellphoto.com ]

To find out more about the New York City wedding photographer Ryan Brenizer, who is a pioneer of panoramic stitching in portraiture, you can visit www.ryanbrenizer.com

DIY tilt & shift lens for full-frame sensor

I used a Zenza Bronica lens that I picked up on Ebay, a rubber steering bellow and a body cap to make this Do It Yourself Tilt & Shift Lens for full-frame sensor. The design is based on Jan Christian's project here. Please see three photographs I took with it at a shopping mall this past weekend. The shooting experience turned out to be a nice workout for my left forearm.





UPDATE, I took this portrait with the same lens: