This triple - camera phone is mightily impressive in low - light, operates fast, can do all those fancy software - based Portrait mode
background blurs just as badly as its competition, along with image stabilisation and that intelligent zoom.
So basically, this feature adds
a background blur just like all the phones with Portrait mode do.
Not exact matches
How do you get so much
blur in the
background, you use a special lens or
just aperture?
I really LOVE the photos with a
blurred / soft
background, and my current lens
just does NOT have that capability.
There are also a ton of photos where he's
just a
blur in the
background but I try to pick the ones where he's standing still
Just as the detective's narcotics -
blurred mind mostly seems to be elsewhere, however, so the case recedes into the
background for the bulk of the film, as his crazed antics bleed into a host of interconnected subplots.
The thing is, the depth of field is rather narrow, so in
just about every portrait selfie I've taken, my eyes, nose and mouth are pin sharp, but everything from the middle of my forehead up gets
blurred just like the
background.
But I did get to play with Google's new Portrait mode, and I was super-impressed with the
background blur effect that Google is able to muster with
just a single camera lens and machine - learning algorithms.
There's a lot to do on these phones, from taking beautiful selfies that
blur the
background to viewing YouTube videos on the immersive 18:5:9 Infinity display, but if you've
just purchased one, here are a few things you should set up on your A8 or A8 + before doing anything else.
To use this, you
just proceed as if you were taking a regular selfie, only this one will look way better because the
background will be
blurred, making you stand out in the picture.
We've seen plenty of other leaks over the last few months, and most are pointing to squeezable sides as an alternative input option (
just like the HTC U11), an upgraded camera, and some special photo effects for good measure, like that bokeh effect or
blurred background that seems to be everywhere at the moment.
The Portrait mode itself was often guilty of over aggressively
blurring the
background or sometimes
just not doing enough.
Just like the iPhone's eponymous feature, it
blurs the
background of your pictures to put more focus on the subject.
It doesn't perform any fake - looking
background blurring — it's
just a tremendously useful, high quality wide - angle lens.
In one portrait I took of my colleague Cortney with the Pixel 2, the New York City skyline
blurred into the
background, but not too much —
just enough for her red - orange hair, blue shirt and green jacket to pop.
We aren't sure
just yet about the specifics for Instagram's portrait mode, but if it's like what we've seen so far in the industry, it'll likely
blur out the
background around subjects you take photos of to create for more professional - looking shots.
This feature might come
just as a filter which will
blur the
background for you.
It's
just a swipe away in the camera app, and it works
just like the others do: use the two cameras to sense the depth of a scene, select a point to be in focus, and aggressively
blur the «
background» behind that point.
When used in tandem, they give you the ability to change the depth of field of a shot, so you can
blur the
background while shooting at portrait or focus to infinity when capturing a landscape,
just like you would on a big mirrorless or DSLR.
It can work when there's distinction between the two, but if you happen to have hair the same colour as the
background - or
just wispy hair - then it will get
blurred around the edges.
And while in most of the cases this is indeed true, and it lets you adjust the
background blur manually from the Gallery app, I've also noticed that unless the light conditions are
just perfect, colors tend to become washed out, especially on people's faces.
Mashable reported at the time when the handset was launched that the dual selfie cameras were built to take photos with bokeh (
background blur)
just like with a DSLR.
I am
just telling you that Messaging can't have Fluent
blurred background on Mobile because it doesn't have menus over non-solid
backgrounds, and it's quite simple compared with Maps, Store, Photos, and others.
Using
just your voice, easily take full - length photos and short videos with a hands - free camera that includes built - in LED lighting, depth - sensing camera, and computer vision - based
background blur
Just swipe to select it, and the iPhone 7 Plus does the rest of the work, with the 56 mm lens shooting a close - up of your subject while the other lens captures
background information to be
blurred by the iPhone's image processor.