The camera app includes a handy slider that allows you to adjust — in real time — how
much background blur will be present in your final shot.
On the other hand, the bokeh mode offers more control over how
much background blur is added.
Not exact matches
A plain
background works best, but if the subject is in a crowd or busy area,
blur the
background as
much as you can with the help of a telephoto lens, wide open.
How do you get so
much blur in the
background, you use a special lens or just aperture?
It is small and gives great quality photos, can be used to shoot in low light and gives that beautiful
blurred background I love so
much.
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.
The
much - sought - after portrait mode will let you snap a shot, and the phone will process the image and add the
background blur for you.
The depth of field effects of the f / 2.4 setting are noticeably different, as
background elements don't have as
much blur.
On the Galaxy S9 and S9 +, the 8MP front camera can optionally
blur the
background of images while keeping the foreground in focus in Selfie focus mode,
much like the bokeh effect on the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2XL.
You can then adjust how
much you want the
background blurred - out after the fact.
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.
You can move the aperture from f / 0.95 to f / 16, depending on your requirements — the simple rule is that a low aperture value will
blur the
background more, while a high value will not
blur it as
much.
This is combined with depth map data calculated from the Phase - Detect Auto - Focus (PDAF) dual - pixels located in the image sensor and a stereo algorithms to further detect areas of the
background and how
much blur to apply based on distance from the foreground.
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.
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.
Much as with the iPhone 8, the Pixel's 8 - megapixel cameras support augmented reality, along with a «Portrait» mode that
blurs the
backgrounds of close - up shots.
It also has a wide aperture mode for capturing photos with as
much or as little
background blur as you'd like.
Part of the reason Huawei has opted for two cameras is that it can offset the data between them, creating a depth map and the ability, via software, to
blur the
background as if it was taken with a
much wider - open aperture.
We found
much better results on the Google Pixel 2 or Samsung Galaxy Note 8, for example, as the OnePlus 5T didn't seem to do a good job of accurately identifying the subject in the foreground and subsequently dramatically
blurring the
background.
These combine to produce
background blur on portrait mode photos and also enable a quick 2x zoom without losing
much detail.
In reality,
much of this is about the styling of the photo rather than the pure quality, and
much of the focus (excuse the pun) is on an enhanced bokeh effect for those melty,
blurred backgrounds.
These sensors detect a subject and attempt to
blur the
background, giving the photo a
much more professional, SLR - style photo.
It's obviously not a true aperture change, but the purpose of this mode is to let you alter how
much motion
blur there is in the
background, while keeping everything in the foreground in focus.