1st attempt at Brenizer

Nifty Fifty f/1.8 around 6-7 feet away. I really wish I had that 85mm lens everyone else uses Distortion was HORRIBLE!!! Had to use PS and stitch these together myself one at a time, correcting angles etc. :P Won't be doing THAT again! Will try using my zoom lens next time. Anyhow.... successful?? Does the effect show?? I ended up having to crop it down somewhat because I gave up fighting with all of those tree limbs :P So I ended up using around 20 images instead of the 50 I had originally. Maybe I should have gotten further back?

looks like it front focused and that dog, he looks deformed for some odd reason...

Yeah.... my focus wasn't dead on like I had wanted.... I had to put her back in that spot 4 times before I managed to get her to stay...and was rushed to focus :P As to her looking deformed.... It's only 2 photos that make up her... they were pretty spot on. It might be because she is half sitting since she really wanted to get up and do something better than pose for me lol

KInda hard to see with a photo that small.. How about a bigger one?

Is the feel of it there though? Just wondering if I'm kinda understanding it.

Better? (realized I could replace original image) I know this could have been much better and I still have some things I need to do next time before even taking my pics, like white balance. This was just to see what I could do with the lenses I have. Will try again with a different lens to see what can be accomplished...if anything. My 50mm has the best f stop for this kind of thing... but not the right focal distance :P

Hi there - sorry for commenting on an older post but I feel like the tree on the almost-left-third of the image is more in focus and prominent than the dog and that's what my attention goes to first instead of the dog, if that makes sense,