I just remember I found this page yesterday :
http://www.wozzeck.net/images/DoF_fr.html
It's a very interesting focal blur settings macro by Francois Dispot.
It's in french but the zip is down the page. It's four years old, but I 
found it yesterday, probably everybody knows it, but it was a discovery 
to me. :-))

JC

JC (Exether) wrote:
> I really like it too, it must be a lot of work.
> 
>> I'm not really happy with it, from a compositional point of view,
>> too many distractions, like the bookcase and the arches,
>> but removing those makes the setting dull, so I'm at a loss as
>> to what to do to improve it.
> 
> 
> Maybe some focal blur, it would show better what to look at and add some 
> more realistic looking to the image.
> I would also improve a bit the book at first plane, scaling down a bit 
> the crakle normal (+ turbulence 0.1) so that it's not so obvious that it 
> is the all purpose crackle pattern and add thickness to the cover's 
> corners and give them a leather texture.
> 
>> best put it away for a while and start something else :-)
> 
> Yes, I understand that, it seems that working too much on the same image 
> drains out all artistic energy.
> 
> JC
>

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