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Technique name question...

derelict

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I am looking for the name of the technique where you take multiple shots of a scene with different focus points and then layer them into one photo. I think it starts with a 'B' but I cannot remember.

Thanks!
 
I call it Focus Stacking.
 
That is similar but not quite it. I really wish I could remember it.
 
Focus stacking is multiple focus points but usually applied to macro still life. Brenizer method must have same focus point on the subject with larger oof background stitched in using PS. Never tried it with film but could work. Definitely a hybrid method for film.

MacFred: I like your quote
 
The Brenizer method doesn't use multiple focus points. It uses a single focus point, but spread out over multiple images to combine the shallow DOF of a telephoto with the FOV of a wide-angle.
 
But this method is a digital manipulation hard to achieve by analog means to say the least. So this can't be what the OP is looking for. Or am I missing something?

The only "focus-stacking" in the analog world I know is used in the macro field.
 
Prof_Pixel said:
That sort of sounds like unsharp masking.
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May be very similar in theory, I'm going to suggest that the magnitude of defocus is generally larger with the Orton Effect. The Orton effects I've seen in practice were used to create a fuzzier look rather than sharper.
 
AgX said:
... But this method is a digital manipulation hard to achieve by analog means to say the least...
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I agree !
It's witches' brew ...
No need for this technique in analog world - better to go with a large(r) format camera to create such
'bokeh panorama' (though I'm quite sure the OP is loooking exactly for the Brenizer ...).
 
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Multiple exposures
Making a mess
Montage
 
480sparky said:
Orton Effect uses two distinct exposures.
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Well yeah, a bit of a necessity when stacking slide frames/films for projection.

That is one of the controls for how much sharp vs blurred. 1/3:2/3 or 50:50 or ...
 
It was the Brenizer effect I was thinking of! I am going to give it a shot using film. Yes, it will involve 'witches brew' but I want to see if it is at least possible. I have never tried focus stacking either. I will be giving that a go as well. Thanks!

I could go with a large format camera but I want to see if I can create a large format pano using my 645 gear. Might not work but could be fun.
 
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One way of achieving multiple planes of focus that I've seen used in tabletop photography for advertising is to layer multiple exposures on one sheet of film by lighting only one plane of focus at a time, refocusing between exposures.

So imagine you've got some space-age audio gizmo in the foreground (the thing you're advertising), an audio rack full of equipment in the middle ground, and a black background lit from behind with pinholes in it to simulate a dark starry sky, and you focus each one for a separate exposure, marking the groundglass to control the composition, using Polaroids to make sure the scale of the different sections doesn't look unnatural.
 

Wow, that sounds like an interesting take. Like a double exposure?
 
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