The Galllo Method

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About The Galllo Method

Exploring the possibilities of Defocus Stacking.

This method offers an easy way to get opulent and smooth bokeh in your shots. It is much more straightforward as "Brenizer's Method" or "Warot's Method", but can give quite good results. A Short explanation: The technique is based on the stacking of images with different focus adjustments ('defocus stacking'). All you need is a digital camera--a point-and-shoot is good enough--to take at least two shots, a sharp one and a blurred one.

Later-on in Photoshop the two or more handheld shots are placed on different layers in one image and are roughly aligned by eye (automatic alignment is very likely to fail with these blurry images). Then the images are combined using layers and manual masking.

Masking is done according to your understanding or rememberance of depth in the image. That's all. Much faster than Brenizer's Method, that's for sure!

An example of the workflow: www.flickr.com/photos/galllo/4701108819/

Note: Yes, perhaps it could be done fully automatic with some sort of algorithm as used in the TiltShiftMaker--the user defines a focus plane, the software does the rest--but the results would not be as good. Anyway, it doesn't take long to mask the sharp parts out.

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All pictures in this group have been made using the Galllo Method or evolutions thereof.

Note: Yes, it's Galllo with three "l" :-) , the Gallo Method with two "l" describes something completely different, a method of treatment of headache, I think.