Depth of Field (DOF)

[glorybound]

I am trying to get a strong DOF on the foreground. What am I doing wrong?

[super gnu]

i think you have to try lower f-stops. try say 0.2 or something. thing is, on an architectural scale scene youre not going to really get a shallow depth of field with a normal camera setting. either scale the scene down to macro sizes and use natural cam settings, or keep it the same size, and use unnatural cam settings.

i usually adjust fstop/shutter speed to get dof/ moblur correct, then adjust iso to get exposure correct.

[super gnu]

nice render by the way

sure you want heavy DOF? itll make it look like a miniature.. maybe thats the idea though

[simmsimaging]

the DOF indicators do not exactly show the area of "focus" in the intuitively accurate way you might expect unfortunately. I'm guessing it's a scene scale thing. Try an even lower f-stop?

[andybot_cg]

you could do that in photoshop very quickly with a gradient mask and the lens blur filter.

[glorybound]

I guess I want to use this scene to play with DOF, and not actually use the results unless it works. I never thought about lowering the f-stop below a real value, but I guess it makes sense, since I am trying to create an un-realistic effect. So, basically, I would have to have something really close to the camera for this to work. My goal is to create something realistic, yet interesting, on my scenes.

[glorybound]

tilt-shift

This works good. You can do the same thing in Photoshop, using a gradient and blur (as mentioned above), but this is much more fun!

http://tiltshiftmaker.com/

[Sawyer]

Just about the easiest approach is to render the z-bufffer pass and use that as a mask in PS. Then save it as a channel and load it (z-buffer channel) as a mask to use the camera blur filter.

[airstyle]

I second lowering the f-stop....those settings there are a simulation, they aren't a real camera so you can go as low or high as you want...PS DOF is pretty sketchy at best, but for just trying out different levels of blurriness it's fine.

[super gnu]

if you really want to do DOF in post, frischluft lenscare is the only way to go

[Franx]

Or Richard Rosenman's DofPro
http://www.dofpro.com/
For me, too much guesswork and time wasted doing dof in render. Not to mention longer render times...

[glorybound]

Or Richard Rosenman's DofPro
http://www.dofpro.com/
For me, too much guesswork and time wasted doing dof in render. Not to mention longer render times...

I own a seat, and used it a couple times, but not for awhile now. I never got the animating DOF to work in it.

[flino2004]

I use dofpro as well, in my render elements I like to have around 4-6 z-buffers so i can combine Dof effects as well as fog....to me in my workflow having DOF directly from vraycam is not an option.

[Da_elf]

Or Richard Rosenman's DofPro
http://www.dofpro.com/
For me, too much guesswork and time wasted doing dof in render. Not to mention longer render times...

no way to use that in AE yet though right?

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

Lenscare by Frischfruch is an option for you for AE