Creative Photos
Achieve selective focus effects with your iPhone camera
How to shoot and edit photos to get a background (or foreground) blur while keeping the main subject sharp
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Professional DSLR camera users can utilise a wide aperture setting such as f1.5 to create a shallow depth of field, which makes the main subject look sharp while blurring the background. This selective focus effect helps draw attention to specific parts of the image. While you can’t manually choose a blur-inducing wide aperture on your iPhone, there are things you can do to create selective focus effects. We’ll show you how to create a blur effect naturally using the standard Photo mode, fake a shallow depth of field in Portrait mode, and even take precise manual control over focus using a third-party app.