Incarnadine, I still have to check this but my theory is that if you take 2 copy's of your distance mask and adjust the brightness curve of one of the copy's to clamp the forgound blurring, and adjust the other one to clamp the background blurring, you can combine those two again to drive a blur/sharp/blur DOF effect.

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