It's been a little over a week that Apple launched the new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, the latest devices from the guys on the block waiting, obviously, for the iPhone X. New iPhones that come to renew the previous range and those that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), looks like wants to promote the new portrait mode with iPhone 8 Plus Portrait Lighting ...
Portrait Lighting allows us dramatize the Portraits (with portrait mode obviously) that we do with our iPhone, something like using a studio lighting to enhance the portraits we take, a step beyond the way the iPhone 7 popularized. And Apple wants to convince us of this with a new spot focused on the iPhone 8 Plus ... After the jump we show you "Portraits of Her", Apple's new spot about the Portrait Lighting of the new iPhone 8.
As you can see, in the video we see the artist Shannon Wise from the group The Shacks walking down the street and singing the band's single «This Strange Effect«, A curious title to illustrate the promotion of the new Portrait Lighting mode. While he is walking we can see how the different lighting modes that we have in the new portrait mode of the iPhone 8 are changing: daylight, studio light, contour light, stage light, and mono stage light.
It must be said that these new modes of Portrait Lighting only apply to photos that we do through portrait mode, nothing to be able to use it with video because obviously it would be very difficult to process in real time. The real effect is something that you can see at the end of the video when Shannon sees how her photography varies according to the chosen lighting mode. One of the most interesting novelties of the iPhone 8 that It is still in beta mode and the results are not all we expected ... Let's see when Apple releases the final version of Portrait Lighting ...