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After [unboxing my new iPhone 12 Pro](https://peakd.com/iphone/@hiddenblade/iphone-12-pro-and-airpods-pro-unboxing-video), I immediately took some photos to try out the camera Apple has been bragging so much about. Before I decided to buy this, I watched a lot of reviews on Youtube and they were really good. The camera of the pros have new (and even better) sensors which makes them easier to focus on the subjects. Coming from the iPhone 6s, the portrait mode is new to me. I have portrait mode on my iPad Pro as well, but it only works in the front cam since nobody really uses the back camera on a tablet... so Apple didn't bother much on making the back camera as good as the ones on iPhones. I haven't used it on iPad that much either, it's a bit hard to take selfies since it's big lol.

The portrait mode feature allows you to take shots with a blurred background, which is the best for portrait shots (hence the name lol). The new sensor of this phone will be pretty much be useful for this feature.

![IMG_0225.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/hiddenblade/EogQC7s8mDgET2rdtDW1Y19TRF8wJ1yiKRztNB3SWhPKAhbEKr4SnoLKzejp3U4zPUx.jpg) _{Shot on Portrait mode (natural light) and edited to Mono on iPhone.}
I was already blown away by the fast sensor of this camera. It detects the subject pretty fast!
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I was even blown away by how good the quality is. How it balances out the light to expose it well and how sharp the subject is. Also you can see from this close up shot that it blurs out the edges pretty good. There's a gradual blur (as necessary) and not like a very sharp blur that looks fake.

![IMG_0196.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/hiddenblade/23zGitMxQrZYWYyRqkVNyV6QHWZ39vad3pVo8qqBDfrokAVrj5KvEBTu1bAwRgiY88iTN.jpg)

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I also didn't adjust the curves or whatever of these photographs. I just took edited them in iPhone's built in editor in Mono.

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These two photographs are taken on Portrait mode High-key Light Mono which makes the photo black and white, and gives the subject a completely white background and gives it lighting to make it seem like it's taken in a studio.

![IMG_0194.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/hiddenblade/Ep1cgpgfMw5LGCTpiQ1j9TbUfxAQamQJU2LmifWR1hhAvo2BHYiTKXakWAtQpSP2Gbn.jpg)
It's a bit tricky for pets since it's hard to tell them to sit straight so you'll have to take it in a weird angle (and not the usual human-looking-straight-into-the-camera).

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It looks good regardless! I should try this on a human (me probably) but that will be on another post. These are only a few shots that I've taken but they are pretty impressive already! I have a feeling I'll enjoy this more than my DSLR camera (which is 9 years old already).

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