I figured it was about time to learn how to USE Povray rather than just
tinker with it :)
To that end I've been experimenting with camera settings, and I noticed a
problem. If you look at the two scenes below, the only difference between
them is the aperture setting on the camera ( 0.0 vs. 0.4 ), yet the image
with focal blur is 'washed out'. Both are using Radiosity ( standard setting
5 ) and an area light, and both have anti-aliasing set to 0.3 - although the
focal blur feature seems to disable this when the aperture is >0. Is there a
way to prevent this washout without turning all the lights down? I apologize
if I'm just missing some simple setting that's in the documentation, but I
can't find it ATM :) I'm impressed both with the level of realism that focal
blur and radiosity add to an image, and the hit my rendering time takes :)

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