Some of the world’s best cameras are right there in your hands.
Smartphones have been pushing the boundaries of filmmaking since their debut back in 2007. Since then, smartphones have constantly improved their camera quality with each release, making the phone’s camera almost as good as any filmmaking camera.
But there’s a catch.
Unlike most DLSRs, smartphones have a tiny sensor that doesn’t allow for that professional shallow depth of field that gives any video a cinematic quality. Just because smartphones don’t naturally create a shallow depth of field doesn’t mean that we can’t create one through a few tricks.
Smartphone Filmmaking Pro shows us four ways to create a background that is out of focus using the thing that is in your hands. Some methods work better than others, but the results are always the same: a blurry, shallow depth of field that will elevate your videos.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
