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Editors Note: These images have been made on a current pictures trip to Cuba. I'll be main organizations once more in October this 12 months and January subsequent. If you are interested by mastering greater, shoot me an e-mail (here) or a FB message. Cuba is a magical area that I'm getting to know very well. I'd love to share the revel in with you!

Morro Castle throughout Havana Harbor, Havana, Cuba

? Rad A. Drew

Creating Soft Focus Images with the iPhone

These photos of Morro Castle across Havana Harbor, and the dancer from Cuba’s International Ballet, and are perfect candidates for exploring soft-focus photography, and the iPhone allows for some fun experimentation!

Patricia, Dancer with Cuba's International Ballet, Havana, Cuba

There are a several ways to achieve a soft focus look with the iPhone. This blog post from last year on how to create your own “Orton Effect” using iPhone apps is one way you might enjoy, but it’s a little more involved.

Since writing that post, a relatively new app called Enlight , has made creating this look even simpler.

The Process

Select an photograph which you think might benefit from a barely dreamy excellent. Landscapes and pix with nostalgic or romantic content appear to be in particular accurate candidates for the soft-recognition appearance.

Process the picture in your regular way doing the ordinary enhancing you do along with cropping, sharpening, and coloration modifications, then technique the image with something apps you pick to attain the appearance you need whether it's a ?Directly? Shot, a vintage look, a painterly impact, or a few different very last high-quality.

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When finalizing your photo and making it geared up for the gentle-awareness step, you may want to method it to be barely darker than normal, because adding the tender-cognizance inside the very last step may lighten it slightly.

Once you?Ve processed your image and you've it looking the manner you?D like, it?S now time to feature the tender-consciousness look.

Open the app, Enlight,

select your photograph, and follow these steps:

• Select ARTSTIC from Enlight’s side menu.
• Select PAINTING.
• Select PRESETS along the bottom.

• Scroll to the preset GLOW . It’s second from the last in the collection.
• Using your finger on the screen, slide across the image to increase softness of the focus on a scale from 0 (no softness) to 100 (extreme softness).
• Try to find a “sweet spot” that retains some detail in your image yet gives it a slightly soft, buttery glow.

You might also locate that some images will receive more softness, at the same time as others handiest need a touch.

For the photograph of the dancer, I chose to use a whole lot of softness, in element because I wanted to emphasize the dreaminess of the picture, however also (don't tell!) due to the fact there has been a blemish in the unique image that I couldn?T put off with other processing! I selected to difficult to understand the blemish with gentle-cognizance. This is probably a touch an excessive amount of for some tastes.

For the image of Morro Castle, I wanted to offer it a slightly timeless first-rate to emphasize the records and decorate the romance of the scene. For this photograph, I used only a slight quantity of gentle-attention.

Have fun experimenting! If you have any questions, don?T hesitate to ask. And please don't forget subscribing to my blog, and to my Newsletter for more Photo Tips and the trendy on journeys and gaining knowledge of possibilities.

Until subsequent time, hold on shooting!

Rad

P.S. I'll be covering these and many other processing techniques in my May workshop in the South of France. Details here.

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