I am trying to get a strong DOF on the foreground. What am I doing wrong? [2011-08-10_0924.png] [light house - northeast.jpg]

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 …

nice render by the way :slight_smile: sure you want heavy DOF? itll make it look like a miniature.. maybe thats the idea though :wink:

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?

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 clo…

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/ ]( http://tiltshiftmaker.com/ )

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.

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.

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

Or Richard Rosenman’s DofPro;) [image] 外壁塗装広島ガイド | 株式会社佐々木塗装高品質の外壁塗装とリフォームを求める方向けに最適な広島の建設会社を探し出すお手伝いをします。 For me, too much guesswork and time wasted doing dof in render. Not to mention longer render times…

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andybot_cg August 10, 2011, 3:10pm 5

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

Setting the number of Light Cache passes higher than the number of threads

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