Kitchen experiment 

...and for once it's not about the trash bin gaining sentience and walking away :)

Having encountered the wedding photographer Ryan Brenizer (who blogs for amazon.com and has a stream at flickr that tends to pop up at the top of the interestingness hill over there) a couple of times on the net I've noticed his (do I dare say partly gimmicky?) technique of depth of field/bokeh panorama stitching. According to him he invented it (could be true, haven't seen it before him), he dubbed it "Ryan's strange lenses" and the "Brenizer technique" (his howto).

The idea is to take several exposures in order to get a composite image that had it been a single exposure would usually have had to be taken using an impossingly large aperture lens for any given focal length (haven't calculated this properly, ended up more wide than high too when stitched in PS CS3). The thing that enables this is really clever software such as Photoshop CS3 that can automatically import and align several images making a huge panorama).

At any rate, I thought of trying this out.

Composite of 13 shots taken wide open at f/2 using a 85mm lens, ended up cropping it at 16:9 as I didn't capture enough height-wise. I was going for something that would have the same field of view as a 35mm lens. Behind the scenes shot..