Stitching with a macro

[OsmosisStudios]

My girlfriend's parents have a box full of these old cameras: I plan on doing the lot of them. I've got 2 down so far.

(also in Sepia)

This one is 50 frames in a roughly 7x7 array, all shot with a Nikon 40mm Macro lens.

This one is 28 frames in a 4wide by 7high array, again shot with a Nikon 40mm macro lens. Slight play on perspective with this: the "horizon" on this shot is at the top of the subject camera. The shooting camera was centred left/right on the subject, but rotated left to get column 1, and tilted down to get (1,1)(1,2)(1,3) etc. It was then returned to the top, rotated to the right, and again tilted down. This exaggerated the perspective and curved things a bit. Not exactly what I was aiming for, but works nonetheless.

Strobist info: 40mm, f/8, 1/125s, iso200. SB-800 off-camera in a 2'x2' softbox, about 2 feet from camera, left, at 30degree angle from parallel, 1/64th power.

[Glayva]

This might start another "heated" discussion but, I guess, I am like most who view this that I haven't got a clue what you are writing about or what you are trying to achieve!!!!!

[kirbinster]

I don't get it either. Why not just take one shot? Its not super sharp or super large so why the stitching?

[northmichigan]

Hmmmmm; LOVE the old cameras, but add me to those that wonder "why"? I'm not understanding why they can't be taken in one shot? Can you explain to us some more as to what you are attempting to create? Perhaps it will make more sense, then.

[RLucas]

It was done with a macro lens. I'm sure it was shot fairly close, and at that subject distance, you have to focus stack to get the depth of field deeper. With macros, even a narrow aperture will yield a shallow dof. I understand in my head the rest of what he did, but I can't explain it. I think he is trying to emulate the look of medium format. This may explain it a little better than what I can, if I am correct in my assumption?
brenizer method Ryan Brenizer — NYC Wedding Photographer. Problem solver, storyteller.

Nice work Os!

[sk66]

This wasn't focus stacking...
There are a few reasons why one *might* want to do this.

Extreme detail by using a macro lens from close distance.
Controlling DOF
Gigantic enlargements
JFTHOI

Most of this is *lost* when viewed on a computer.

[MattJohnRobinson]

Yeah was going to say, he could blow this up to several times life size... other than that, not sure what the point is.
It would be cool if they were focus-stacked, though.

[OsmosisStudios]

The Ryan Brenizer Effect. He uses it mostly on people, but I wanted to try it on items. The idea is to use several photos at shallow DoF to emulate medium or large format.

In this case, I used a macro because I had to get very close (about 1") from the subject to get the subject isolation.

A secondary goal was to get big images: the ones posted on flickr are less than 1k pixels to a side, but the real ones are about 10x that.

[MattJohnRobinson]

Hm well, this effect that he uses is based on the fact that the background actually has depth...a lot of it. Using a solid blank wall defeats any sort of DOF perceptions you're trying to create...

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by MattJohnRobinson

Hm well, this effect that he uses is based on the fact that the background actually has depth...a lot of it. Using a solid blank wall defeats any sort of DOF perceptions you're trying to create...

The effect is substantially lessened by the size seen here: when larger, the DoF is more obvious, but your concerns are noted.