The iPhone Photography Book

Getting the High-Key B&W Look

This is part camera technique, part post-processing, and all the way cool. You take a person’s portrait and your iPhone extracts them from the background and puts them on a solid white background, like you shot in a studio on a roll of white seamless paper as your background all lit with studio lighting. Now, don’t get all excited yet because there are three things you need to make this work: (1) you need to shoot the portrait using your Camera app’s Portrait mode (see page 44), (2) you need to be using an iPhone XR or later, and (3) you need to have iOS 13 or later. If you’ve got that going on, then take the photo, ...