Warp wrote:
> effect. I think in this kind of image it's ok, and adds to the depth and
> realism.

I'm not arguing that the effect is bad. I'm merely commenting that I 
find most POV images I've seen with focal blur seem to set too high an 
aperture. I find an image where almost everything is out of focus to be 
very distracting. *My* real-life macro camera is cheap, yet has superior 
depth of field when photographing things just an inch or two from the 
lens. A camera that can't get the entire subject of the photograph in 
decent focus is the wrong camera for the photograph. :-)

For example, taking scene8 and setting the aperture to 0.3 instead of 
0.75 gives a picture that I, personally, find much more appealing than 
either no focal blur or "excessive" focal blur. It demonstrates depth 
without making the interesting parts so blurry as to be unrecognisable. 
Of course, it's all subjective.  I just wondered if I was the only 
person who found most examples I've seen of focal blur apertures to be 
too large to be aesthetically appealing.

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