Both lens-flares and DOF can add karakter(sp?) to a scene. You have to use them correctly and with a well codinated strategy, just throwing the effects in to say you used them usually is not going to add to the image. What I miss in bryce is specular blooming and the star-effect that bikermouse illustrated. You can get great effects with them, but adding them in postwork doesn't allow for correct interaction between the light and the rest of the scene. But then again, not even the most professional renderers fully support this yet (okay, one or 2 maybe, but that's it). It's a new upcomming technology to render these things. use them correctly and they're powerfull.

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