Author: Mercedes Alvarez (Page 1 of 6)

I captured the original photos on my iPhone then I put them into the Focos app. It was fun seeing how the app adjusted the images, for some it focused on objects that I didn’t expect it to, like the couch in the last image.

For the first image I tapped on the elf hat so the focus went there and blurred the background. For the second image I tapped in the background so it would focus it and blur out the hat.

I wanted to add more of a contrast with the glass to the wall so I selected the white wall and adjusted it. I increased the exposure by .28, the highlights by 6, and the whites by 4.

I started off by cropping the image so the window could fill the frame more. I increased the contrast by 12, the highlight by 4, the whites by 10, and decreased the blacks by 14.