Take Beautiful Portraits by Stitching Multiple Close-ups Instead of One Large Image

One way to take a good portrait photograph is to keep the subject in focus, while adding a little blur to the background. It’s difficult to achieve, but if you take multiple close-up photos of your subject and stitch them together, it’s easy to do.

The Koldunov brothers demonstrate this well in their video. As long as your subject is still, zoom all the way with your lens and capture parts of them.

Each photo will only capture a small piece of the person, but thanks to the focal length and your distance from your subject, the background of each piece will be blurry. When you stitch them together in Photoshop, the final image will have a blurry(er) background than you could otherwise get.

You can check out their other tricks in the video above, or head to Petapixel for a better explanation of each trick.

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