Philip Houska Portrait mode is becoming a very popular feature of the new iPhone 7 Plus. Photos with a blurred background and a sharp foreground are also starting to appear in abundance on Flickr, which is literally dominated by Apple devices. The popular photo-sharing service has traditionally shared the statistics of the most used devices for the past year, and iPhones lead the way.
On Flickr, 47 percent of users use iPhones to take photos (or all Apple devices that can be used to take photos, but 80% are iPhones). That's nearly double Canon's 24 percent.
In 2016, iPhones once again dominated Flickr. 47% of all photos uploaded were taken with an iPhone. The first three places are held by the iPhone 6, 5S and 6S. ? pic.twitter.com/YGzCE4N4I5
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It was very convenient that she came Press Release Apple, which on the one hand reminds us that its iPhone is the most popular camera in the world, but above all asked professional photographers how users should handle the new Portrait mode on the iPhone 7 Plus. He asked people like Jeremy Cowart (photographer of world models) or female traveler/photographer The Pei Ketrons.
And here are their tips:
- If you get as close as possible to the subject, the details will stand out.
- On the contrary, if you take pictures at a greater distance (about 2,5 meters), you will capture a larger part of the background.
- It is important that the subject does not move (a traditional problem when photographing pets).
- It is good to get rid of as many distractions as possible.
- Leave the sunlight behind the subject to achieve a backlit background to make the subject stand out.
- A slight reduction in exposure is often sufficient for a more cinematic feel to the entire shot.
- Finding a place with ideal lighting for a highlighted photographed object.
Best not to use the fake bokeh on the iPhone 7 Plus at all, because it's a terrible software trick...
It's not important what, but what and how...
Please what is the difference between "software distortion" and an optical effect?
In the optical effect, the amount of blur (bokeh) is affected by the distance from the focus plane. This means that objects further away from the focused object are more out of focus. With software blur, it is not possible to determine the distance and therefore it works artificially. The difference is in the place where the part of the photo is in focus at the end and the part that is out of focus begins. With software modification, this transition does not work very well. Advice, but probably a better option than "finishing" the blurry background in Instagram with your finger.
But this does not mean that all photos will look bad, if someone takes a sufficient number of photos (200-300) in different situations, he will definitely choose 2-3 of them that will not look artificial
That's a fact, but thanks to the information from two different lenses, sw has a much better chance of distinguishing depth.
The software doesn't really work yet.
Of course, it is possible to specify the distance, however else you think it works. Two cameras compare the distance difference between identical pixels and then calculate a traditional depth map (depth image) based on which they either blur more or less. The only problem is that the resolution is low and therefore the quality of the depth map, but also of the blur itself, is low. :(
i expected something more .. this is very brief
these are advices like a thigh, which are, in my opinion, useful only for a person who holds (generally) a camera for the first time in his life.