The premium keeps going on the back where the Honor 7X sports dual rear cameras with a 16 - megapixel lens for rich colours and a 2 - megapixel depth sensing lens for those shallow depth of field shots that give you a professional
looking background blur.
The Vivo X20 Plus's bokeh mode produces a strong, but fairly natural -
looking background blur, and subject masking is reasonably good.
It doesn't perform any fake -
looking background blurring — it's just a tremendously useful, high quality wide - angle lens.
Not exact matches
Both phones handled portrait mode very well, where the
background is artificially
blurred to create that professional -
looking «bokeh» effect.
You can get a nice
background blur with this lens that will make your videos and photos
look like those of a professional.
And the HD focus (with
background blurred) was very nice to
look at.
Looks like they re-sized the sprites in Photoshop (or something) and threw a Gaussian
blur over them or some other filter, leaving
blurred sprites with jagged visual edges over the hi res
backgrounds.
There is a lot of
blurring throughout the various
backgrounds of the film's impressive field of depth, with the ever transforming buildings and environments
looking even more complicated as you watch the film without your 3D glasses.
According to him, some fonts are not attractive for reading and
looks blurred on the screen while some are
looking magnificent on the screen with all
backgrounds.
The lens also creates some awesome
looking background bokeh (
blur).
The 3D element makes it so that either the foreground or the
background is
blurred to the point of seeing double, depending on which plane I'm
looking at.
As such, you can expect to see occasional visual oddities, some
blurred background textures (which may have been intentional, despite
looking odd) and lengthy frame freezes.
His painting «Alp on a White
Background», which
looks very much like a
blurred photograph, portrays a person who seems to be a woman, but the name «Alp» in the title suggests the opposite.
Used together it captures bokeh - style
blurred background shots (like the iPhone's Portrait Mode), while the monochrome lens on its own takes great
looking black and white photos without a filter.
Thanks to the secondary monochrome sensor used for depth sensing (among other tasks), the Huawei P20 is capable of producing natural -
looking results in its
background -
blurring bokeh mode.
Background blur tends to be unnaturally strong, and the transition between sharp and
blurred areas is very abrupt, generating quite unnatural -
looking images overall.
The option says «Find a Face» when selected and when it founds one, a
background blur is applied to give an overall portrait mode style
look.
However, the
background in the Essential Phone's photo
looks pixelated, and the Galaxy S8 offers better bokeh — where the subject is in focus against a
blurred - out
background.
The reason why this edge detection is critical is because that's where the software starts to apply the
blur — and our eyes can instantly tell when the edge and
background blur doesn't
look right.
Everything else in the image can have a slightly
blurred look in the
background, which should give your images a more professional
look.
This means selfies with
blurred out
backgrounds and Apple includes a few different preset filters to make the selfies take on a different
look.
If you
look closely, the iPhone X decides to
blur the leaves in the
background.
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.
It allows you to take pictures with a professional -
looking «bokeh» effect, which
blurs the
background behind the photo's subject.
The notification shade is rather nice
looking, the
background is
blurred based on what is showing behind it.
The iPhone X did a nice job of
blurring out the
background in a selfie I took, and then added a Contour filter, which made my face
look tanner and thinner (and I'm okay with that).
Portrait Mode stil artfully
blurs out the
background with the so - called bokeh effect — and it
looks a little more natural now — while a new Portrait Lighting feature (in beta) lets you adjust the lighting of your shots before and after you shoot with several effects.
While photos
look great much of the time, the software can mess up the
blur affect at times when colors blend in or there is not much separation between the focal subject and
background items.
Apple's fun new ad shows how Portrait Mode makes the ordinary
look extraordinary by advanced tech to
blur the
background, making subjects pop more than ever.
Once the subject is in the perfect spot, use the
background blur slider to adjust the degree of bokeh in the
background; Samsung allows you to see the adjustments in real time so you can make sure it doesn't
look overly processed.
It allows you to
blur out the
background or the subject for a more professional
looking picture.
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 is now a dual - lens setup that allows you to capture some attractive -
looking «bokeh» shots with artfully
blurred backgrounds, as well as boasting a «lossless» zoom feature, which essentially means that zooming in on subjects will only result in a negligible reduction in image quality.
The result is a portrait with a
blurred background and in - focus face, though the resulting images
look much lower quality than Portrait mode on newer iPhones.
Using the two lenses together, both phones can capture bokeh - style
blurred background shots (Portrait Mode), while the monochrome lens can be used separately to shoot great
looking black and white photos without a filter.
A photo of an owl purse taken in a dimly lit room
looks grainy overall, with the details of the purse
blurring into the
background.
You won't find a portrait mode or
background blurring effects on this camera, so photos won't
look quite as dramatic as they do on the 7X.
Photos taken by Echo
Look focus on what the user is wearing by
blurring out the
background.
The Portrait Mode of the Pixel 2's camera gives pictures a more professional
look by
blurring the
background of the subject through a synthetic shallow depth of field effect.
Instead, it gets most of the subject in focus but then applies the
blur a little too heavily to the edges of the subject, making it
look like the rest of the objects in the
background.
Without the two lenses, the Mi Mix 2 avoids the depth - mapping for software - applied
blurred backgrounds that's become so common in phones these days - think Portrait mode in the iPhone - opting instead for simpler tilt / shift and parallel
blur lines (if you want to soften the edges of an image to make it
look miniature).
The color reproduction in natural light is great, and it
looks more natural, and although not that it helps always, the
background does get
blurred appreciably when we focused on some object close to the camera.
It is a nice feature, but which aperture you pick will also affect the shutter speeds, so very steady hands will be required if you are
looking for shots with extremely
blurred out
backgrounds.
The OnePlus 5 uses the second camera for a number of different things, but in portrait mode it's specifically used for depth perception, as the phone is able to
blur the
background and keep the foreground in extreme focus, attempting to mimic the
look of a super low aperture lens on a DSLR.
Having your subject significantly separated from the
background will throw the
background out of focus and create that nice, smooth
blur that we're
looking for to give our image or video that three dimensional feel.