Light Field Refocus
A kind of photograph that records the direction of incoming light, letting you change focus after shooting. Ren Ng's research led to the Lytro cameras in 2012, an early consumer attempt.
Spot it
- 01Selectable focus plane
- 02Layered depth blur
- 03Slightly soft low resolution
Why it happens
A microlens array captures many slightly different viewpoints in one shot, and the images can be recombined to simulate focusing at any depth.
Recreate it in Pixio
Image edit prompt“Re-render this image as a light field photograph: the focus set on a chosen foreground element with crisp detail, the midground gently soft and the background in a smooth layered blur, slight depth separation between layers, and a gently low-resolution, slightly soft digital look. Keep the original subject and composition.”
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