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Greatest hit: Blurring the background

Greatest hit: Blurring the background - iPhone Tutorial

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Greatest hit: Blurring the background

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- Hey everybody! Seán Duggan here and it's greatest hits time on Mobile Photography Weekly as we check out one of the most popular episodes in the series. (camera roll countdown) One aspect of making photographs with a mobile phone is that you're not able to blur the background as much as you would be able to with a conventional camera or you could get really nice shallow depth of field that is natural and optically created from the lens that you're using. Hi, I'm Seán and this week we're going to take a look at blurring the background using photo processing apps. So, one thing to keep in mind when you're doing this is that you need to understand the limitations of your device, the camera phone, or the app you might be using, as well as manage your expectations. Because the post processing background blurring effect you can create with an app is going to be really nothing like what you can get from an actual optical blur…

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