Year after year, the technology behind the cameras of our smartphones evolves to offer better features. In parallel, camera applications also improve to offer more options, filters, etc. But in the same way that camera and application evolve, the photographer must also improve so today we show you a tutorial on how to get the bokeh effect with the camera on our smartphone .
Let's try to explain what the bokeh effect is in the simplest way possible. Reading Wikipedia , bokeh means blur and comes from Japanese . When we move it to photography, the bokeh effect consists of a focused and sharp close-up image, while the background appears out of focus with a ring effect .
To achieve the bokeh effect we need to capture the snapshot in a very specific way and also influences the equipment used.
The key is to play with the distances, that is, to approach the camera as close as possible to the object that we want to be in the foreground and focused. This is not something simple with smartphone cameras, so we are limited to small objects.
Getting this effect with people is very difficult unless we are in the open field or with a broad background landscape. In the following image you can see an example of a bokeh effect made with the camera of a Xiaomi Mi5s, which is not specially designed for this.
When getting the bokeh effect with the mobile is a very complicated or impossible task, we have to resort to applications to simulate it. In Play Store we find specific applications for bokeh, such as Portrait Lens or AfterFocus.
We can also choose the well-known Snapseed application that offers up to 11 possibilities to simulate this bokeh effect.
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