Caporegime
Right is portrait mode.
Portrait mode sucks
- Thread starter Barks
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Adobe has just added Lightroom a 'Lens Blur' tool into Lightroom but with much more control you get with the Apple 'Portrait' mode
You can adjust the blur amount and focal range (depth map) with a slider. See the areas of image you are changing as a mask and make refinements using an focus or blur brush.
It works really well, and could save spending more on wider aperture lenses and of course lugging around the added weight.
It's an early early access beta feature so will have more improvements into the future
Here is a comparison - [I deliberately over applied the amount of blur]
You can adjust the blur amount and focal range (depth map) with a slider. See the areas of image you are changing as a mask and make refinements using an focus or blur brush.
It works really well, and could save spending more on wider aperture lenses and of course lugging around the added weight.
It's an early early access beta feature so will have more improvements into the future
Here is a comparison - [I deliberately over applied the amount of blur]
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That looks like an interesting developmentAdobe has just added Lightroom a 'Lens Blur' tool into Lightroom but with much more control you get with the Apple 'Portrait' mode
You can adjust the blur amount and focal range (depth map) with a slider. See the areas of image you are changing as a mask and make refinements using an focus or blur brush.
It works really well, and could save spending more on wider aperture lenses and of course lugging around the added weight.
It's an early early access beta feature so will have more improvements into the future
Here is a comparison - [I deliberately over applied the amount of blur]
Yeah I saw this in Lightroom last week and had a play. I still don’t think it looks good, even if you use it with skill and good judgement the images look artificial.
To my eyes an image with a subject in focus and a background artificially blurred just doesn’t look natural, period. The same shot taken through a proper lens will have all sorts of depth going on at different areas with the out of focus background, it isn’t just all blurred to the same degree.
Even in your image above you can see the tanker is less blurred than the tyres that are further away.
The only time these artificial options work is telephoto portrait shots where it’s just pin sharp subject and background blurred to oblivion.
To my eyes an image with a subject in focus and a background artificially blurred just doesn’t look natural, period. The same shot taken through a proper lens will have all sorts of depth going on at different areas with the out of focus background, it isn’t just all blurred to the same degree.
Even in your image above you can see the tanker is less blurred than the tyres that are further away.
The only time these artificial options work is telephoto portrait shots where it’s just pin sharp subject and background blurred to oblivion.
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