The iphone x and iphone 8 plus come with a brand new camera feature.
Stage light iphone 8 plus.
Portrait photographers usually use complex lighting equipment to light up your face in a certain way.
Studio lighting will place a light directly on your face.
The new feature in iphone 8 plus brings professional level lighting effects to your iphone.
This one is just for the iphone 8 plus.
Regular portrait no studio lighting this is the same type of lighting that you already knew and loved in portrait mode on the iphone 7 plus.
They use the lighting to get the photo effect they want.
Portrait lighting and apple says it is way more than just a filter.
Aka no lighting effects.
Portrait lighting feature lets you do the same without an expensive camera setup.
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.
The company has allegedly spent countless hours setting up studio lights and studying the renaissance masters to understand and bring portrait lighting to your iphone pictures without any additional real light and just a tap away.
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.
All of apple s portrait lighting effects can be applied after the fact but stage light and its black and white companion are designed to be shot in camera and potentially removed or changed afterward if you want a good stage light photo expect to be shooting in stage light from the start and take a few test photos to see what your background is giving you for a matte.
You can really tell on the stage light examples at the bottom.