Did you know that you can shape the aperture on your lens to create a unique, artistic background? I discovered a simple DIY ...

The combination of the two enable the camera to pull off some interesting effects, one of which is bokeh effects applied to the shallow depth-of-field — that is, to the blurred background of a ...

Pronounced "bo-kay," the bokeh effect refers to the out-of-focus background in a photo or video. Depending on camera type and distance to the object in focus, the bokeh effect is often ...

Thankfully, creative pros have other options available that can help achieve the bokeh effect without costing a fortune in new lenses. You could go the do-it-yourself route, but this requires you ...

And one feature which became a rage after Apple introduced dual cameras was the ability of the smartphone’s camera to create a bokeh effect in the user’s pictures. Although the technology has ...

More info. Instagram announced a new effect for those who take pictures and videos directly inside of the IG app, one that brings all of that amazing artificial bokeh right to your device.

Sunday: Cheap phone photography, editing apps, and a history lesson Sunday: Cheap phone photography, editing apps, and a history lesson The technological foundation of mobile photography How to ...

The iPhone can perform a bokeh portrait effect, but it is handled via computational photography rather than as an in-camera change. Namely it is faked in software instead of performed in hardware.

Bokeh, a depth of field effect, is one of those aspects to an image that are often credited as a key difference between amateur and professional photography. An amateur or phone image will ...