Apple continues to be very active on its YouTube channel, where in addition to explaining how to achieve the best results in photographs on our iPhones, it also explains how get the best results with its most current equipment, the HomePod. However, those from Cupertino have also taken advantage of their popular YouTube channel to explain us in a new video how they managed to capture the «Portrait Lighting» effect on the screen of our iPhone X or iPhone 8 Plus.
Photography has become for Apple one of the main pillars in its line of smart phones. Not only are we facing mobile phones with cameras with surprising results, but we can already emulate some results that we could only achieve with high-level cameras, such as the effect bokeh depicted in the famous "Portrait Mode". Nevertheless, he is no longer the only protagonist. Now we have "Portrait Lighting".
Throughout a 1:30 minute video, Apple explains how its engineers were able to take to our palm of the hand techniques used by the best professionals in the imaging sector. They studied portraits painted on pictures to techniques used in professional photographers.
Apple engineers studied all lighting techniques so that later you would be able to apply those changes to your portraits. Thus, after these studies in combination with «machine learning», you are able to apply different effects - not filters - to your selfies or portraits such as: natural light, studio light, contour light, stage light, and monochrome.
On the other hand, tell you that this function can only be carried out with the front camera of the iPhone X, although you can apply it through software with the rear cameras of the iPhone X and the iPhone 8 Plus. Also, if you are still not sure, these Portrait Lighting effects can be applied retrospectively; In other words, you will be able to apply the changes that you deem appropriate from the Photos application of your latest generation iPhone.
