noobinator
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I'd probably just say avoid using portrait mode on shots were portrait mode gives poor results.
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Iphone X Portrait mode -Birds
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I'd probably just say avoid using portrait mode on shots were portrait mode gives poor results.
itsmemuffins
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ericgtr12
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Ouch, that looks like the effects of software driven bokeh (background blur), on a SLR camera it's hard enough to get a shallow depth of focus on smaller subjects, even in decent light with a fast lens.
Hahaha come on it’s a joke.
Email Tim, tell him Apple needs to not be shipping products in beta mode. Seriously.
itsmemuffins
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bruinsrme
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deany
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'Pigeons' they are Doves. That God sent to be a connection between Heaven and Earth.
Anyhow sorry to get 'heavy' I think the Gemini from Planet Computers UK is ideal for you as a blogger, what do you think?
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If that is a live Parott, then you should not be dressing him up as Santa Claus.
You should know these living breathing God sent gifts are not to be treated like a 'Punch and Judy Show'.
bruinsrme
macrumors 604
That is a female parrot. The males are a stunning green with candy corn beaks.
My bird is spoiled rotten. She can give us one crazy picture and an hour each year. Otherwise I will show her the door and she can fly the coop
tromboneaholic
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It's not exactly a lighting issue per se. The problem is that in low light, the camera app still uses a really slow shutter speed so that it minimizes the ISO speed. A faster shutter will require a faster ISO which will then created noise in the photo. A slow shutter is bad for things that are moving. Your bird is most likely making small, but quick movements of its' head. That will cause blur in your photo. You can try to increase the amount of light in your photos to get a faster shutter speed so that motion can be frozen. Otherwise, you got to trigger at the exact moment your bird is perfectly still. It's not all the different with people. Professional models are trained to "hold that pose" perfectly still for several seconds.
Here we go. Grey hates phones which is why she’s a bit fluffled up and the Senegal likes to dance because ya know.
As you can see the software based bokeh is picky/choosy. You can have really shallow depth of field or not. Overall not bad, but its not DSLR.
To the op, have you replicated the issue with one particular spot blurred out?
[doublepost=1511298801][/doublepost]Here’s some macro shots where it doesn't do so good, definitely not shallow depth of field at all..
As you can see the software based bokeh is picky/choosy. You can have really shallow depth of field or not. Overall not bad, but its not DSLR.
To the op, have you replicated the issue with one particular spot blurred out?
[doublepost=1511298801][/doublepost]Here’s some macro shots where it doesn't do so good, definitely not shallow depth of field at all..
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deany
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deany
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An African Grey, taken in deep shade at the local zoo, through fine bird mesh, using a DSLR and macro-lens. She loved my camera and kept on coming up really close for me. To expect this sort of focus fall-off from a mobile phone is silly. It takes real optics to achieve it. An emulation is just that, an attempted copy of something.
deany
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I love all God's creatures, if you were to ask me the bottom of list it would be ......An African Grey, taken in deep shade at the local zoo, through fine bird mesh, using a DSLR and macro-lens. She loved my camera and kept on coming up really close for me. To expect this sort of focus fall-off from a mobile phone is silly. It takes real optics to achieve it. An emulation is just that, an attempted copy of something.
Humans. aka
Homo sapiens
myscrnnm
macrumors 68000
I don't think it's to do with the birds. I tried to use portrait mode for the first time while taking a picture of a LEGO sculpture, and it does the same thing where the edge of the object is out of focus even though it's in the same plane where the camera should be focusing. My theory is this is because the iPhone's portrait mode is mostly controlled by software reconciling the two images created from the wide angle and telephoto lens, rather than true shallow depth of field that can be created by a single large aperture. So in this case the software is looking for a human face, but is confused because it can't find one.