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Blurring the background

Blurring the background - iPhone Tutorial

From the course: Mobile Photography Weekly

Blurring the background

- One aspect of making photographs with a mobile phone, is that you're not able to blur the background as much as you would be able to with a conventional camera where you can get really nice, shallow depth of field, that is natural and optically created from the lens that you're using. Hi, I'm Shawn, and this week we're gonna take a look at blurring the background using photo processing apps. So, one thing to keep in mind when you're doing this is that you need to understand the limitations of your device, the camera phone, or the app you might be using, as well as manage your expectations because the post-processing background blurring effects you can create with an app, is gonna be really nothing like what you can get from an actual optical blur created in camera. It's just not the same thing. So managing your expectations is key. One thing that can affect the success of the blur that you create, is the type of subject you're shooting and how far away it is from the background that…

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