Hi there, i have a person in a scene.  How do I focus on that one when I chose depth of field in the render settings.
Love esther

Attached Link: "Poser's Guides" Tutorial

This might be of some help.

cheers,
dr geep
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 wait - stop - I can't see the focus distance guide anywhere.
Love esther

 not even in the manual (well hardly- doesn't tell me where)
Love esther

See graphic Page 10 (above).

This tutorial was done for Poser 6 but should be about the same in Poser 7, no? :blink:

cheers,
dr geep
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 I've looked and looked at that page but I agree with the bloke there who said "where did this thing come from?"
I clicked the depth of field setting but I can't see the little target thingy.
Love esther

 stop looking everybody!  Just found an option in one of the menus on top of poser screen for guides and guess what is there?  You don't know?  yes it's the focus distance guide.
Off to try it.
Love esther
PS thanks Doc!

cheers,
dr geep
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 thanks.  rendering as we speak.

cheers,
dr geep
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cheers,
dr geep
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whats with all the noise ? 

does poser always use noise to blur the shadows,DoF and reflections??????????

Another way is to do a depth pass (easy way is to enable depth cue and silhouette display mode and printscreen this) and then use this with photoshop or similar. eg the lens blur filter in photoshop will give you very nice results with no noise. It's fast as well as you can choose the point of focus in the filter itself so you don't have to do rerenders.

howdy folks -

when it comes to depth of field  in Poser7 -
I am noticing that the fStop dial in poser is not causing a depth of field result that is on par with a real camera in the real world

If I turn the fStop number HIGHER with the parameter dial, I am assuming that this is creating a larger depth of field ( I am assuming that in  Poser, higher Fstop=a smaller aperture opening, like a real camera  )

However, what happens to me is,  with the figure about 10 feet from the camera, I am setting the focus distance  to the face of the figure and cranking up the fStop value a bit,  so that i have a larger depth of field,  in the hope that  i will end up "in focus"  from somewhere slightly in front of the figure , to somewhere slightly behind the figure. The reason I am trying to do this is with the default fStop value,  a DOF render is too out of focus  when you start  getting towards the back of the hair, so I am trying to slightly increase DOF.  

Am I wrong in assuming that fStop functions in Psoer like a real camera?

Thanks

oh yeah so i never said what is going wrong -
i am looking for greater DOF so i raise the fStop value.  and i just get massive blur on the whole render -

 I made a tutorial about DoF in Poser, too. Not as funny as Doc's but I did have a real photographer explain it to me, how and why it worked as it did.

Made in Poser 6 but Poser 7 works the same and I assume Poser Pro does, too.

Have a look: http://trekkiegrrrl.dk/DOFtut1.htm

Hi Trek,

Well, I took a look at your tut and it's not very funny.

But ... it is very well done.

cheers,
dr geep
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In the Funny Dept.

Two cannibals eating a clown ... One says to the other ...

"Say, does this taste funny to you?"

Doc you gotta admit,
"manboobs" don't usually draw a lot of yuks.

I think TG did a fine job in the funny dept with what she was given to work with.

I preffer doing depth of field in post work myself :)
use either photoshops new depth blur, or, Richard Rosenman's Depth of Field Pro plugin.

So what's the difference between Depth of Field and Depth Cue? I've never understood it.

What are your settings for the depth of field image? And also I seem to be having trouble with he cross hairs guide in Pro. I cannot seem to move it up or down.  I seem to remember being able to move the guide up and down, but that might have been in Poser 6. Depth Cueing has never worked for me. If you check off Depth Cue in Atmosphere you have to choose a color. If you leave it black, the whole thing renders almost black, if you change the color at all, it renders only that color. I don't get it.

For the depth of field picture, my camera ( the main camera) had a focal length of 80mm and the f-stop was set at 8. Pixel samples was set to 4.
Now, I must confess that I didn't use the focus guide for this. I used semidieu's Advanced Render Options (for sale at RDNA, http://www.runtimedna.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=3322&vendor=semidieu ) which in the settings panel has an option to set the focal point, or even a focal point between two parts in a scene if you choose to use DoF.
I have used the focus guide in the past, it's ok, but a pain to get right involving a lot of trial and error. If I needed to focus somewhere other than the guide centre I used to set a dot in the camera dots, then using y-trans and x-trans move my object of focus to the centre of the screen, align the focus guide and then go back to my original camera setting by clicking on my saved camera view dot.
There is an easier way to set the focus distance than the guide, thanks to stewer. He wrote a python script for P5 that got the distance for you, you then copy-paste the distance into the focus dustance parameter dial, It's available here, http://www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/dof_p5.html

Because DOF is so render intensive I usually prefere to cheat and split the shots up into different layers then adjust blur as required in my editing program as my stuff is usually ani ation but you could also do this in PS for single images

Dave.