I think I did about 15 renderings for the motion blur, and then 7 renders
for the depth of field. So about 105 renderings altogether
(and, ---definintly---, I used a batch file). That's why the image is so
small, it took a hefty amount of time just to render it. Also, the
background IS a photograph. Someone mentioned that it looked great, and
yeah, that's because it is a photograph. I was attempting to make the image
look not-superimposed.

I had to recreate the environment in PovRay so that the lighting would match
that in the original picture. I did that by using several different light
sources and fog. The background was rendered as part of the image so that
the motion blur and antialiasing would come out correct. I then did some
post processing in PhotoPaint and added lense-flares with some alpha maps.

Also, since the depth of field didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted it
to, I used PhotoPaint to correct the problem. This image is about 30% PovRay
in reality, the rest is pre- and post-processing.

Thanks for comments,
D.J.

Mike wrote in message <36CBE3E6.E93570A0@aol.com>...
>OMG, UFO's are real!  Run for your lives, we're all gonna' diee!
>
>Hey, pretty good.  The motion blur came out good too.  How many extra
>frames did it require?
>
>-Mike
>
>D.J. Brown wrote:
>>
>> Here's something I did a while back by combining several images together
and
>> adding lense-flares manually. It's older work, so nothing technically
>> fantastic. Just felt like sharing.
>>
>>  [Image]

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