Thursday, October 02, 2025

Phones Really Rock

I recently showed you here what an iPhone can do in portrait mode. One evening with Sue already abed and making funny noises which weren't exactly snoring and not quite blowing bubbles, I decided to see if the portrait mode on prints that hang on my wall would work  

First, I focussed on Jonathan's portrait.

It worked. The phone recognized JJ as a human form. This is the result — unedited, btw.


Next was a group portrait of Sue with our two grown children. It was taken on an almost blizzardy day. Look how the phone version accentuates the snow, or maybe you won't see it at this resolution.



Finally, Dani.



Pretty interesting and impressive, whatever you think of phone photography in general. BTW, the hanging prints do look much better on the wall than they do here. The point was to demonstrate the phone's unique capability and not to highlight the original prints. 

7 comments:

  1. I love the look of them all.

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  2. Interesting effect. Does that mean you could take your grandson and add him to the other photo?

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    1. That is compositing, a separate but possible thing that I have done in the past.

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    2. My daughters have shown my on an iPhone anyway, how I can tap on a picture like yours above and create a sticker of a human. Then I can open up another picture and add that sticker, in essence compositing all in my iPhone camera app.

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  3. These are terrific! Love how this is working!

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  4. I really do need to explore my native iPhone camera app more. I know I am only scratching the surface of what it can do, even with what my daughters have taught me.

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  5. iPhone is the only one I've ever owned and I have no clue of the possibilities. I'm going to spend some time trying to learn. Thank you for opening this up to me.

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