iPhone 7 Plus Portrait Mode

Swimming in the Garden of Dreams (iPhone 7 Plus, Portrait Mode)
December, 2016
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The Portrait mode on the iPhone 7+ is still officially a beta feature and there is certainly room for improvement. But the name of the feature may be a bit misleading, because it is useful for much more than just portraits. In this shot of a tabletop still life, it did a nice job of blurring the branches in the background (seen through a window) to create a dreamy feel to the image. You can see the original color image below. For this final image, Snapseed was used to convert to black and white and apply additional perimeter blurring and other localized processing. Minor retouching was also done in Adobe Photoshop Fix. All edits were made on the iPhone.