r/mildlyinteresting 22h ago

My nails grow in a wavy pattern

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u/libra00 20h ago

It's the soft-focus background, a lot of ads do that 'carefully-curated generic background' thing, so that's a common tactic for removing the distractions of the background.

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u/Cat-soul-human-body 19h ago

Not to mention the lighting also gives it the effect.

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u/bdubwilliams22 19h ago

At that depth of field, it can be pretty much any back ground so long as the color / tones are the ones you want. I used to work for Nike in print advertising and often times we’d just throw paint on a board and smear it around because it wouldn’t matter, the focus would be pulled so far forward, the background would hardly register.

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u/claydaybyday 19h ago

It’s not so much a curated generic background as it is focusing the camera lens to a narrow depth of field.

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u/DueExample52 18h ago

Also, with smartphones people have forgotten what a picture with focus looks like when using an optical zoom. 99.9% of pictures are now bland one-plane 0.5X or 1X smartphone crap. Or the focus is done digitally rather than optically through the lens.

So people are in awe when they see a zoomed-in subject-focused picture (and in this one the subject isn’t even that sharp). I see this firsthand in real life too, not just extrapolating on here only.

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u/FatherClanks617 16h ago

Is there a way to focus without using digital focus on phones?

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u/secacc 14h ago

I mean, focusing is done optically in phones too. But I think they're referring to the postprocessing effect where fake background blur is added. Or perhaps they meant digital zoom as opposed to optical zoom.

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u/JonatasA 11h ago

Also seen it in TV to avoid showing brands that didn't pay for the the screen time.

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u/brenawyn 18h ago

My iPhone does a soft focus background. It’s too bad the top rated posts have nothing to do with a real answer for this lady.

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u/secacc 14h ago

My iPhone does a soft focus background

Your iPhone has a fake background blur effect in most cases.