Past experience has been very hit - or - miss with artificial
shallow depth of field on smartphones, especially on Android devices.
Not exact matches
For product photography, you will usually want to focus solely
on your creation, so using a
shallow depth of field will be perfect, it will throw everything else out
of focus, this way nothing distracts from your product.
On your camera simply use the portrait (picture
of a head) setting for a
shallow depth of field that just has the subject in focus and blur in front and behind.
A
shallow depth of field (smaller f - stop number) will only focus
on the objects in the foreground and leave the background blurry and a wider
depth of field (larger f - stop number) will produce an image with more
of the background in focus.
Hollywood Reporter's Harry Windsor praised Durald in his One & Two review; «Gifted cinematographer Autumn Cheyenne Durald's (Palo Alto) dusky images and
shallow depth of field recalls Roger Deakins» work
on The Assassination
of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and the lyrical, prelapsarian world she evokes is the last place you expect to see teenagers apparating at will.»
Musicbed: Cinematographers Autumn Durald and Rachel Morrison
on filmmaking and Motherhood «Gifted cinematographer Autumn Cheyenne Durald's (Palo Alto) dusky images and
shallow depth of field recalls Roger Deakins» work
on The Assassination
of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and the lyrical, prelapsarian world she evokes is the last place you expect to see teenagers apparating at will.»
As light falling
on the subject is recorded directly onto a sheet
of Ilfochrome paper, the resulting hyper - real image is entirely grainless and acutely detailed, though
shallow in
depth of field.
The
shallow depth of field images present curious constructions
of maps made by the artist — maps which now take
on different roles than those once dictated by their previous lives as simple geographical -LSB-.....]
With the new Leica Dual Lens with f / 1.6 aperture, you can easily take beautiful
shallow depth of field pictures, crystal clear low - light photographs and blur - free shots
of objects
on the move.
On SLRs and DSLRs,
shallow depth of field is achieved by narrowing or widening the aperture (the opening
of the lens's diaphragm through which light passes through), which in turn narrows or widens the focal plane.
The new smartphones take the same general design as the Galaxy S8 devices, with slightly slimmer bezels
on the top and bottom.The headline feature
of the S9 and S9 + is a 12 - megapixel dual lens camera, boasting the first variable aperture system built into a smartphone, which promises better results in low light conditions and hardware - based
shallow depth of field effects.
, the 13 - MP dual rear cameras
on Motorola's device captured sharp photos in low light and striking details with a
shallow depth of field.
It might be the company is not confident enough to try its hand at using
shallow depth of field in other scenarios, again, perhaps because it relies heavily or solely
on the machine learning aspect.
Now for the really interesting tidbit: Apple is also working
on implementing
shallow depth of field (called it!).
Shallow Depth of Field (DOF) is a photography technique that focuses
on a single object within a picture, while softening the surrounding area.
On the camera app home screen, you see a shutter button, gallery access, video mode, camera switch button, filters, flashlight and the
shallow depth of field button to change the wide aperture
of the capture.
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.
With Portrait Mode, users will be able to get a
shallow depth -
of -
field shot, similar to what's available
on a DSLR.
On the top you find five options starting from the flash,
shallow depth of field mode, photo colours (Standard, Vivid Colors & Smooth colours), filters (9 to select from) followed by the option to switch to the front camera.
The most common trick is to use the increasingly common dual - camera setup
on the back
of phones to generate a
depth map
of an image, which lets the software blur the background and keep the subject in focus, creating a virtual
shallow depth of field that simulates the effect
of a $ 500 DSLR lens.
Portrait Mode
on the iPhone 8 PlusPortrait Mode keeps the subject firmly in focus while applying a
shallow depth -
of -
field bokeh effect to the background.
On the back, there's a 16 - megapixel camera which Samsung says can autofocus in 0.3 s — supposedly the world's fastest — along with a
shallow depth of field (DOF) effect mode, HDR with real - time processing, and Ultra HD video recording at 30 fps.
So, if we're all
on the same page and you want to start adding some SWEET
shallow depth of field to your productions, there are three main things you're going to want to keep in mind: