Its highlighted strengths include good exposures, accurate color rendering, good detail with low noise and a natural -
looking bokeh effect, among others.
Other key strengths in still image mode include very good exposures and HDR images, accurate color rendering, good detail with low noise, as well as a natural -
looking bokeh effect in Portrait mode.
It also creates some great
looking bokeh effects, which most other smartphones are unable to do, without adding in a bit of noise.
Not exact matches
Portrait lets you take professional -
looking pictures with «
bokeh» or the fun blurred
effect that you see from high - end cameras.
Both phones handled portrait mode very well, where the background is artificially blurred to create that professional -
looking «
bokeh»
effect.
But if you are not into that stuff, you do need to take one long, hard
look at the Honor 8 Pro that delivers some serious
bokeh effects and some mind - blowing black and white imagery and some better hardware.
In order to make the photo
look natural and as close to a real DSLR photo as possible, Apple's image processor goes through the layers one by one and blurs them in varying amounts, an
effect known as «
bokeh.»
The
bokeh effect looks much more natural on the iPhone 8, while it appears more uneven with Google's camera.
It can
look very artificial if you get too carried away with the blur
effect, and it can only fully refocus on a different part of an image if it hasn't already been blurred out by the camera's natural
bokeh.
It allows you to take pictures with a professional -
looking «
bokeh»
effect, which blurs the background behind the photo's subject.
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.
The
bokeh effect also
looks good in pictures from both front and rear cameras.
The iPhone 7 Plus, unlike the normal 7, lets you take pictures with a professional -
looking «
bokeh»
effect, in which the background is blurry in contrast to the subject.
With dual cameras you can get
Bokeh type
effects but if you
look at the samples it does a weird
Bokeh effect that
looks quite odd and feels like as if deliberately done.
Looking at the sample images, areas around your image are clear and the
bokeh effect starts a bit further.
It'll pick out the forefront of your photo and give the background a
bokeh effect that can
look like DSLR quality.
«Super resolution» gives you a higher quality pic that takes longer to process, when it really counts, «Depth of field» provides a distinct
bokeh effect and «Time rewind» gives you the option to
look over the snaps captured seconds before and after you press the capture button.
It's this gradual stepping that makes all the difference in the world, and makes the «
bokeh» blur something that actually
looks good instead of «fake good,» as most phones that utilize this
effect look.
Bokeh effects look nice, and zooming in didn't leave out much detail.
This
effect is commonly referred to as
bokeh, and it truly helps make photos of subjects
look like they were taken from a professional camera experience, not just a phone.
Modern phones with enhanced
bokeh effects actually rely on software for a more dramatic
look.