Pixel 8 Professional Vs iPhone 15 Professional: Which Takes Higher Portraits?

We examined portrait mode on the iPhone 15 Professional and the Pixel 8 Professional to see which cellphone turned out one of the best portrait photographs. For this take a look at, we took a photograph after which utilized portrait mode after the very fact. We seemed on the bokeh impact in our take a look at photographs, however we additionally seemed on the define of the topics. Aggressive bokeh can obscure issues like stray hairs round a topic’s head, so we checked out this as properly. This is the way it turned out. 

For this comparability, the iPhone 15 Professional photographs are on the left, and the Pixel 8 Professional photographs are on the correct.

Our first picture set has our topic sitting at a desk inside with a busy background. This was captured with the front-facing selfie digicam. The iPhone handles this fairly properly, with a easy transition from the face to the blurry background. The Pixel, nevertheless, feels a bit extra clumsy with aggressive blurring, particularly across the hair on the left facet of the pinnacle.

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Turning the telephones round to the primary digicam, there is a bit extra of the identical. Straggly hair on the left facet of the Pixel shot journeys up the blurring filter making a part of the background clear. The iPhone within the meantime, blurred the entire kit-n-kaboodle, making a smoother transition from the foreground to the background. The winner right here needs to be the iPhone.