My friend Ron turned me onto the amazing photoraphy of Ryan Brenizer. He has a method that he’s sort of made a bit famous and is amazing at, called the Brenizer Panorama Bokeh Method — which involves shooting multiple images at a very shallow depth of field in order to create a “panorama” that would be unachievable otherwise. You can read his blog posts about it to explain it, I am not a technical genius by any sense of the words so can’t even try.

Anyway, I tried this one with my willing newly-married subjects, Brooke & Freeland and it was soooo fun – they are adorable and the cherry trees were to die for. They look like little 3-d models popping off the background. Almost fake. But I’m still learning, and they were really there!!

Brooke & Freeland Cherry Blossoms

I also tried a more simple plain old panorama with Amy & Josh at Presque Isle, Beach 9 where I have a wedding on Friday. It was so fun, they are like rock stars! I was also experimenting with my off-camera lighting, so I had a flash set up on full power to the left of them, and on my camera at 1/2 power. It was about 10 images that I blended together using Photoshop’s Photomerge functionality. I can just imagine this image blown up on a canvas, mounted on a simple wall in a modern home! I would encourage you to click on it and check it out larger!  I’m really happy with it!!!!!

Amy & Josh, Presque Isle Panorama

More tomorrow, of Ashley & Jeremy’s engagement in DC. I HOPE.

I find I’m really doing bad at time management and getting so consumed with work, I always want to be doing stuff at the computer and my house is suffering!!

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