ghostship2 posted at 2:08 PM Tue, 2 May 2023 - #4464027

Come on people, you got no good reason to not use DOF! I'm seeing a lot of good stuff here but you guys need to separate your subject from the background with DOF. Here is one using AppleJack's car expo (from Rendo's marketplace) DOF makes a world of difference.

I take your point and there is no doubt that DOF really increases the impact but (I know you were expecting a but at this point) many of my renders are intended for book illustration and thus sometimes need to impart details and DOF may detract from this.  If it is to help tell the story of an individual or event rather than a location then DOF is fairly essential, even if I do forget it at times.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.