How to make a BOKEH effect on iPhone 5?
I'm just trying to take pictures of my christmas tree in low light, but I want it to be bokeh (lights are blurry). It keeps focusing on the tree and I want the tree to be out of focus. What do I have to do?
Firstly, Bokeh is the quality of the out of focus area. Not the out of focus area itself. Quoting Ken Rockwell - ''Bokeh describes the appearance, or "feel," of out-of-focus areas. Bokeh is not how far something is out-of-focus, bokeh is the character of whatever blur is there.''
Secondly, bokeh can't naturally be achieved on the iphone because it's lens is just not good enough. Bokeh can only naturally be achieved usually by a DSLR and a high quality lens. It would take me quite a while to explain exactly how it works.
Hypothetically, If you want to properly blur the background. You would need full control over the iphone's aperture to open it up enough to around f5.6 (and above, smaller number) so that a shallow depth of field could be achieved and therefore, focusing only on the subject and blurring the background (or vise versa if you wanted). The iphone can to a certain extent blur the background slightly but not very well, It has a few automatic apertures. You can do it by focusing on a subject closer to you and the background should automatically blur slightly. Although, it's nothing like the blurring on a proper DSLR
There are apps out there but since the iphone is locked on auto exposure, you can't do much with just the camera unfortunately.
Apparently the iPhone has a focus lock mechanism (I don't have an iPhone; this is according to Google).
http://www.imore.com/...e-and-ipad
If you focus on what you DO want in focus (i.e. Not the tree) and follow the instructions in that article, you might get what you are looking for.
PS, just for the record, "bokeh" and "out of focus" are not quite the same thing. "Bokeh" is the actual quality (rough, smooth, etc) of the out of focus areas.
The only way to blur the background with an iPhone is to have your subject as close as possible while having your background as far away as possible.
The problem with this is that the lens on a smartphone is very wide. So when you place the camera close to your subject, the lens will distort your subject greatly. If you're trying to achieve the blurry background look in a portrait, then you can't do it with a phone, you need a decent P&S camera that has a telephoto portrait lens. Most P&S cameras can do this, but those with larger sensors do it better than those with small sensors.
The reason the sensor matters is because the larger the sensor, the longer the focal length must be for any given angle of view. Smart phones have the smallest sensors of any device, which about the size of the fingernail on your little finger. The longer the focal length, the shallower the area of focus (a.k.a. Depth of Field) will be. This is why it's so difficult, if not impossible, to blur out the background with any smartphone.
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