How can I create a photo where a phone in the scene shows the same landscape behind it?
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I want to make an image where a hand is holding a mobile phone in front of a landscape, and the phone screen shows the same scene lined up with the real background. How is this usually done? Can it be shot in-camera, or is it normally a composite/edit?
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This is a composite picture. They've taken two pictures:
- The sunset photo
- The hand holding the mobile phone - inside in a controlled lighting environment; there's no way the hand would have that kind of lighting on it if taken in natural light at the same time as the sunset.
They've then replaced the background of the "hand" photo with the sunset, and also pasted the sunset onto the phone, replacing the entire front of the phone with the image on a gradient background.
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This effect is often made as a composite rather than a single exposure. Based on the answers, the common approach is:
- Take the landscape photo.
- Take a separate photo of a hand holding the phone, often in controlled lighting.
- Replace the phone screen with the landscape image in editing, and if needed replace the background too.
Why? The phone screen is usually much dimmer than the outdoor scene, especially at sunset, so exposing both well in one shot is difficult. Depth of field is another issue: phone cameras tend to keep a lot in focus, making it hard to get the blurred background look.
If you want to get close in-camera, use two phones: display the landscape shot on one phone, then photograph that phone against the real scene with a second camera/phone. You may need to crop to match the fields of view, and get very close or use a longer focal length to blur the background more.
So: possible to approximate in-camera, but the polished example is most likely edited/composited.
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