Depth of Field (DOF)

[JAPAN_DIGITAL_IMAGE]

I thought that lowering the f-stops too low makes render times longer, but maybe I mistook that?

Your zoom factor or rather lens length is much to low for blurring this kind of big architectural object. You could position your camera farther away and zoom in, change lens length to - say - 100 or 200 and you will naturally get a stronger bokeh. but of course the look of the scene will change too.

but I would also just do a z-depth pass and freely change the blur in post.

[instinct]

There's preregrine labs' bokeh these days. Does a very good job and in nuke 6.3 even supports deepimg images. With the upcoming vray support that might be fun to play with

Plus it's dead cheap in comparison with lenscare...and it's nuke native (YAY)

Regards,
Thorsten

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

buying lenscare is cheaper than buying nuke though

[instinct]

Not if you have a renderfarm.... :P

The sitelicense option is incredibly fair. You get a sitelicense for the cost of 4(!) Lenscare licenses hehe

From a technical standpoint the bigger issue is beeing native vs. beeing ofx tho.

Am looking forward to try deepimage support (available in the 6.3 version already) as soon as VRay support is available

Regards,
Thorsten

[voltron7]

second for lenscare (as a z-depth option)