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Apple Shares Behind the Scenes Look at How the Portrait Lighting Feature Was Created
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Please update the title, Apple doesn't share a 'behind the scenes' video because the feature is already built on the woman's phone, if anything it's a comparison video. Or 'Apple shares an advert to make it seem like they put thought into a feature'. Or 'Apple advertises a feature to work, when in reality it works 1% of the time accurately'.
And the other half of the posters (actually far more) can't see any speck of good in anything Apple does anymore.
The stupid thing is, why didn't Apple also revamp the front facing camera for the iPhone 8 for this feature? I mean seriously, when we talk about portraits in today's world, it means selfies. Having the feature on the rear facing camera is almost pointless other than for photographers as most people do selfies, not taking portraits of others. Just sayin.
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Having said that, it shows how welcoming Apple forums are, if Android fans/Apple haters are also congregating here. Things must be bad on Android-centric forums.
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Those other half are basically trolls.
Having said that, it shows how welcoming Apple forums are, if Android fans/Apple haters are also congregating here. Things must be bad on Android-centric forums.
Because. It’s one of the main features of the X... similar to how they never gave the smaller iPhones dual cameras on the back.. it was only for the + versions.
From what I can see, it's a selling/differentiating feature when it works and used by people on social media.
Q: "How did you get your photo like that?"
A: "I just took it with my iPhone X."
Wasn't enough of a feature for me to keep my X and so I went back to my iPhone 8 Plus which has portrait photos on the rear camera which I use all the time. But I don't need it for selfies, prefer Touch ID to Face ID, and prefer the wider screen of the Plus models.
Video was nice. It makes a hyperbolic point. But a point. The problem is that the feature doesn't work well all the time. But it's still in beta....shipping on what many consider a beta product.
Q: "How did you get your photo like that?"
A: "I just took it with my iPhone X."
Wasn't enough of a feature for me to keep my X and so I went back to my iPhone 8 Plus which has portrait photos on the rear camera which I use all the time. But I don't need it for selfies, prefer Touch ID to Face ID, and prefer the wider screen of the Plus models.
Video was nice. It makes a hyperbolic point. But a point. The problem is that the feature doesn't work well all the time. But it's still in beta....shipping on what many consider a beta product.
I absolutely disagree. There's a big difference between one amazing image and a million nice ones. Most iPhone images are crap anyway because of the small sensor and crappy lenses.
DISCLAIMER: I've done paid photography work, invested $15k in equipment, but stopped. Reason was that it didn't pay enough. Only the happy few make these, what you call, 'over-priced' amounts.
Apple this evening uploaded a new "Portrait Lighting" video to its YouTube channel, which is designed to give a behind the scenes look at how the Portrait Lighting effects on the iPhone X were created.
In the video, Apple explains that it worked with global image makers and some of the world's best photographers to combine timeless lighting principles with machine learning techniques.
The result was the Portrait Lighting feature available in Portrait Mode on the iPhone X and the iPhone 8 Plus. On iPhone X, Portrait Lighting is available for both the front and rear facing cameras thanks to the TrueDepth camera system, while on iPhone 8 Plus, it's available for shots captured with the rear camera.
Apple's Portrait Lighting feature is designed to use sophisticated algorithms to calculate how your facial features interact with light, creating unique lighting effects.
There are several Portrait mode lighting presets, including Natural Light, Studio Light (lights up your face), Contour Light (adds dramatic shadows), Stage Light (spotlights your face against a dark background), and Stage Light Mono (Stage Light, but in black and white).
Apple has also highlighted Portrait Lighting in several past video ads showing off iPhone X features.
Article Link: Apple Shares Behind the Scenes Look at How the Portrait Lighting Feature Was Created
As a professional photographer, please note that they were in a perfectly lit building with soft diffused lighting and a neutral gray wall. Who needs all those strobes when you have that? Apple with another carnival act.
This isn’t behind the scenes. This is an ad.
I’ve never had that black background one come out right. It just looks like someone is seeping into a black fog which is fuzzy around their head and usually covers parts of their hair/neck/ear. I sometimes use the dynamic lighting to brighten a face slightly. As someone who occasionally does actual studio lighting portrait work, it’s not even close. Portrait Lighting is a neat gimmick though that occasionally makes a photo look a little better—well, for a phone photo anyway.
I’ve never had that black background one come out right. It just looks like someone is seeping into a black fog which is fuzzy around their head and usually covers parts of their hair/neck/ear. I sometimes use the dynamic lighting to brighten a face slightly. As someone who occasionally does actual studio lighting portrait work, it’s not even close. Portrait Lighting is a neat gimmick though that occasionally makes a photo look a little better—well, for a phone photo anyway.
Portrait Lighting Feature
I have not once been successful in getting a good image with that feature. And I am only a professional Photographer and Colorist. I must admit that I did not bother to put subjects in the perfect light prior to taking the shot. When I do that, I use a Canon 1Dx MKII... Which will beat anything an iPhone will ever be able to do...
Anyway, I tried that feature in normal scenarios and all the results were abysmal funny looking. This feature IMO is a joke.
PS - If you have time and your subjects aren't moving then normal Portrait mode is really good (unless printed out (Jagged Subject Edges where Fake Blur Kicks in)). But if you had kids or other subjects which are alive and thus tend to move - that feature too is for laughs !
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That is a joke. And it should be disallowed for grown up people to fool their users into believing such utter crap !
I have not once been successful in getting a good image with that feature. And I am only a professional Photographer and Colorist. I must admit that I did not bother to put subjects in the perfect light prior to taking the shot. When I do that, I use a Canon 1Dx MKII... Which will beat anything an iPhone will ever be able to do...
Anyway, I tried that feature in normal scenarios and all the results were abysmal funny looking. This feature IMO is a joke.
PS - If you have time and your subjects aren't moving then normal Portrait mode is really good (unless printed out (Jagged Subject Edges where Fake Blur Kicks in)). But if you had kids or other subjects which are alive and thus tend to move - that feature too is for laughs !
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“studio-quality portraits” ?
That is a joke. And it should be disallowed for grown up people to fool their users into believing such utter crap !
Needs work, especially in the Stage Light setting, for transitioning between face and black background. Unless you have exactly the right hair styling, more often than not the image looks clipped and badly masked. I find this particularly true if you have short spiky (and thinning!) hair...
I think Apple is putting WAY to much hype into something that is not that exciting. There's tons of filters out there. The snapchat filters are way better and more exciting. I don't get it.
I don't know how this is supposed to work, I guess. When I use Portrait mode and go through the different settings, I don't get any alterations with my 8+. Stage doesn't look any different than Studio which doesn't look any different than Natural. I figured the entire thing was a fail, but maybe I somehow have a hardware issue.