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Re: Raytraced DOF: wha happen?

Re: Raytraced DOF: wha happen?

2005-03-10       - By Andrew Turner

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Hi Holly-

In fact, it's fun to retouch photos with fake dof to make lots of stuff
look tiny!

Anyway, the dof is pretty easy to work with, but not optimal; that
said, I like it... The settings show up under the Effects tab when your
camera is selected.

Thanks!
Andrew

On Mar 10, 2005, at 1:56 PM, hdaggers2000 wrote:

>
>
> Hrmmm. That is a cool "treebark" effect that you have discovered....
> I've not yet used the
> depth of field in Carrara because it seems like it is the new "lens
> flair" in 3D: often
> overused to the point of being unrealistic. Also DOF seems to make
> things look like
> miniatures sometimes with such a narrow field of focus that would only
> happen with a very
> close-up lens.... A director of photography for a favorite sci-fi tv
> show said that 3D is very
> good at making things that look "tiny", but not very good at making
> "giant" things.
>
> What are your thoughts Andrew? Is DOF difficult to work with? I'm not
> even sure where the
> settings are....
> cheers! Cute tree critter.



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