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It says something about placing the subject within 2.5m, when you use the Portrait Mode feature
One ear dog. LOL....good observation.I'm going to agree with you here.
Most — if not all of the shots — look like what you get with a poor selection in Photoshop then with a blur slapped on to the background.
Your dog looks as if it has had an ear cut off… the outline is hard — and your eye doesn't follow the natural furry softness that allows you to fill in the "missing" ear naturally as you do in the first shot.
Same with your friend's loose hair strands. You can see these odd blurred strands… making it look like she's steaming.
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Very handsome.
Well done, you found the single image that everyone pounced upon at the time it released. What about all of the images here on this forum, showing the inconsistencies of Portrait Mode Beta in application? Are you saying that all those users are doing it wrong?
What about these images on Apples website showing off this feature that haven't worked properly?
Look at the line/crack in the pavement in between the roller-skates and how no blur has been applied to that portion of the image, but on either side of the roller-skates the ground is completely blurred.
And this one, where one shoulder has a crisp outline and the other is blurred?
There is an image they used where you could see background sections between a guys arm and his body that were not blurred, while the rest of the background was, but they have pulled that image from their site as too many people were pointing it out as an error.
My point is that it is still very much a Beta feature at this current point in time. You need to be clever in order to make it look successful, like the person who shot the three images with a model on the bottom of the previous page. Their first image deliberately has a very dark background to the head, so you don't see all of the effects of the hard masking around the head and the way the feature blurs lots of the fine hairs when they shouldn't be. Their second image shows the blurred outer hairs pretty well, but has the top of the head cut off and I have to wonder why? The third one also shows the blurring of the outer hairs too. None of these images are presented large enough to really have a good look at the hair and how it was treated, unfortunately.
I discovered another anomaly with the Portrait Mode yesterday, it doesn't cope with any movement well, as illustrated in the following image and how the Portrait Mode feature has completely mangled the toy hammer here. That's not motion blur, that's something really strange and peculiar to Portrait Mode and its use of two lenses and its algorithm in application.
I'm very happy with the camera on my 8 plus, especially when it's operated by a third party app which allows you full control of the cameras abilities and the images are saved as RAW files.
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I'm surprised that Portrait mode had difficulties masking along the bottom edge of the upper section of the coffee table in that second image, you can see quite a big section of carpet there that hasn't been blurred at all.May I present **** Rabbit (real name Pixel).
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After:
It also has blurred a big part of the upper section of the coffee table leg, which in reality, shouldn't be blurred as it's not behind the subject here.
Cute fluffy-thumper, by the way!
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Here's mine. I took it in a very dark room, but the low-light performance are truly incredible!
Unfortunately I have the get the regular iPhone 8 or iPhone X due to the DILDO-sized Plus (no offence) which doesn't fit in my pocket!
Unfortunately I have the get the regular iPhone 8 or iPhone X due to the DILDO-sized Plus (no offence) which doesn't fit in my pocket!
This one is very effective! Really nice separation from the background here.
Just thought I'd try and see if I could get that sort of separation too, so just ducked outside and very quickly grabbed this of one of our trees just coming into leaf, I was really surprised at the separation from the background and actually quite enjoy the second version with Stage Light Mono applied even if the masking isn't really fully up to snuff yet!
A few new ones... Of my cat! The first one is in original quality, the others have been compressed due to their size.
I really love playing with portrait mode! Especially when it actually does work as intended.
I really love playing with portrait mode! Especially when it actually does work as intended.