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here's sent off to like one side a little bit there you go do it again do that again all right cool that's awesome hi I'm James Martin senior photographer for CNET we're here with the iPhone 8 plus we're taking it out to try some of the features of the new camera but like last year's iPhone 7 plus the iPhone 8 plus has dual rear cameras a 1.8 aperture standard lens as well as a 2.8 aperture telephoto lens the cameras have a new sensor that gives both lenses 12 megapixel image quality there I was up at sunrise at the Golden Gate Bridge this morning and the color noise in the dark parts of the photo are noticeably less there's it's not noisy at all the colors are really pretty this true tone colors are even in this kind of like drab overcast light the colors are really beautiful I mean it's probably the biggest thing that I've noticed so far is portrait lighting is a new feature on the iPhone 8 plus which uses the phone's two cameras to create a depth map of a person's face allowing you to change the lighting okay so here's a portrait mode natural light very nice and studio light it's like she's lit with another light it's pretty amazing the contour light gives her face a little bit more drama a little more contrast and then the stage lighting is gonna give us the dramatic cutout effect the edges are a little unrefined you can still see the background and then the stage laid by the cutting out is still imperfect as I used a portrait mode stage lighting I noticed that it worked better when the background was clear and clean I took a couple of portraits over the weekend that are really very dramatic and very cool a second really interesting is that editing can all be done after you take the photo as well I think the lighting modes are interesting but clearly new the color of the flash continued to be like a little problematic for me and you can see how she looks a little greenish and a little muddier the bokeh effect on the iPhone A+ is much better than it wasn't a 7 that is so cute except you're blinking when were in the 7 plus it looked a little bit like a blurred background and in the iPhone A+ it looks more like DSLR bokeh that is a good portrait I've noticed when I'm zooming the quality of the image degrades far less on this it seems to me like a big step forward from the 7 plus it's getting close to my DSLR I'm really happy with a lot of these colors and the textures of the city and nature and the ocean and there are really some fantastic photos