"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>
> My personal experience of focal blur is not extensive, but what you describe
> was my goal in this image:
>
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3Cweb.4669ae9cb060a40a7e595fbb0%40news.povray.org%3E/
>
> The background (the object in focus - the brick structure) is not exactly an
> infinite expanse, but it certainly occupies most of the scene's depth. Is
> this the kind of thing you meant?

YES INDEED! That's exactly what I see in my mind's eye. (BTW, a *beautiful*
image there, Bill.) I'll assume you used the technique described earlier,
of setting the sharp-focus-plane far off into the distance.  I'm quite
amazed that it turned out so well, that all the bricks are in sharp focus
while just the girl is nicely blurred. I'm curious if you had to "cheat"
her closer to the camera and scaled down, to get such a nice effect. If
not, then I'm doubly amazed. I see now that POV's current blur type will do
what I want. Many thanks for the example.

KW

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