Using the dual camera setup you could create awesome depth effect photos right from your iphone.
Stage light mono iphone 7 plus.
Apple could have chosen to add portrait lighting to iphone 7 plus as an edit only feature.
On iphone x and later and iphone 8 plus you can use the portrait lighting feature to apply studio quality lighting effects to your portrait mode images.
One of the biggest features in iphone 7 plus was the portrait mode.
It was introduced with the iphone 7 plus leveraging its dual camera system to produce the effect.
At today s keynote apple announced a new addition to its portrait mode called portrait lighting.
Choose from studio light to brighten facial features contour light for more dramatic directional lighting stage light to isolate your subject in the spotlight stage mono for stage light in.
You could also change or remove portrait lighting from a photo taken with iphone 8 plus or iphone x.
High key light mono is available on both cameras of iphone xs and later but only on the front camera of the iphone xr.
This can appear anytime you don t intentionally shoot with stage light but i ve had the best luck reproducing it when shooting images that don t have a face cleanly visible.
In this case stage light mono s goof puts a vignette on the world around it with a center light spotlighting what it thinks could be the subject.
For those who know what they are doing installation is relatively simple and should allow iphone 7 plus owners to get up and running in a relatively short space of time.
Except for iphone 7 plus all models listed above support portrait lighting though the number of effects varies.
For example iphone xr only supports natural light studio light and contour light.
It brought professional level depth photography to the masses.
But it might not be as good as it is on iphone 8 plus and iphone x.