Who doesn’t love a gimmicky—but fun—special effects lens to add to your cinematographer's bag of tricks? The new 7Artisans Floral Bloom 37mm T2.9 lens isn’t here to be a regular lens option, but it’s ...

The iPhone 17 could offer a big boost to photographers, by including a variable aperture that gives more control over the blurriness of an image. Standalone cameras, such as DSLRs and mirrorless ...

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 take a ...

Two new phones are doing something different with their cameras to create a stronger, more versatile depth of field effect, where the background is blurred around a subject. It’s a complicated ...

The iPhone SE can take a 2D image and make it into a Portrait Mode picture with the bokeh effect. The 2020 iPhone SE is the first Apple smartphone to offer Portrait Mode photos created entirely with ...

The Blur Gallery in Adobe Photoshop is different from the Blur Filters we’ve covered previously (both are found in Photoshop’s Filter menu). When you select Blur Gallery, Photoshop displays another ...

Bokeh. To some, it’s the most sought-after aspect of a photograph; to others, it’s a buzzword that just won’t die. The term — which is an intentional misspelling of the Japanese word “boke,” meaning ...

The Sony Xperia 1 V is finally getting the Android 14 update, nearly a month after its stable rollout by Google with the Pixel 8 series. But the list of changes or improvements still seems quite short ...

Achieving realism in visual effects (VFX) is crucial for creating immersive and believable scenes in Unreal Engine. While the engine’s built-in cine camera is powerful and precise, it often produces ...