Smartphone Photography Challenge - Cutting Down Fallen Trees
Hi Steemit friends,
For my entry today into the smartphonephotography challenge, I am sharing a photo that I took this afternoon while I was outside in the rain. As I've mentioned in a couple of my more recent previous posts, we have been experiencing a lot of hard wind this fall as well as lots and lots of rain. Last Saturday night we actually lost power in quite a large part of the province of New Brunswick where I live due to fallen/broken power lines - fortunately it went out just as I was about to go to bed and came back on by about lunch time the next day.
During this storm, we had several large trees in our yard come down. Luckily none of them caused any damage at all to our house as they were all pretty far away. This weekend we've been cutting up these large downed trees into several more manageable smaller pieces.
With the crisp edges of these freshly cut tree trunks visible, I decided to give the "portrait mode" setting on my Google Pixel 2 a try to see how well it would allow me to blur away the background. As you can see, it didn't do too bad of a job; the only small issue that I spotted was that the very outer edges of the tree trunks are slightly blurred, but it's something that you would only really notice in a comparison like this between the photo with the effect on (top) and the original (bottom). This Google photography tech just keeps getting better and better!
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I think my Samsung Galaxy S8 does this too with "Selective Focus" mode.
Here's an example.
Source: https://steemit.com/steemitphotochallenge/@ace108/steemitphotochallenge-45-entry-3-yellow-bell-or-3-by-ace108
and another.
Source: https://steemit.com/photography/@ace108/a-city-a-story-photo-weekly-contest-15-the-purity-of-lotus-or-by-ace108
Oh yeah I can definitely see what you mean. I feel like most of the phone manufacturers out there have been putting their own spin on the "background blur" effect recently. I know that Apple is certainly making a pretty big deal about advertising that feature on their new iPhone devices!
Nevertheless, it's very cool that we've gotten to this point where our smartphone are capable of such great photos and such neat effects! And it's great to see all of the competition happening between the brands because that means things will keep getting better and better!
Yes, these things can only get better.
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