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joannastar — Considering my Next Move
Published: 2006-03-12 23:28:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1703; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 138
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This valley is pretty, but tough to work in. I have tracked my quarry through miles of pretty meadows, only to lose them in the pine trees. So here I sit, considering what to do next...Largely an experiment in Depth of Field in Poser6; it's set up a little differently than in Poser 5. There's lots of mistakes in this, but since rerendering would take ages I don't plan to try to fix them. But, any insight you have into DOF would be appreciated! Especially if you know how to get poser to render large depth maps; I'd rather put DOF in in postwork!
Thanks for looking
Credits:
Aiko 3, Painted valley, greek ruins & Dagonessa all at DAZ.
Sylfie by Thorne & Sarsa
Grace Lion hair by Quarker
Flowers from RDNA
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Thank you, and thanks for the 
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Wow - brave you, I've never tried DOF. Looks pretty good.
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Thank you
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Goregeous render. Love the touches of pebbled rubble
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beautiful 
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Thank you, & thanks for the
Do you have poser 6? If so, you might find the light tutorial on this site helpful [link] (I originally got the link from Aery Soul 's forum. It's not for Poser, it's very general, but it explains the principles behind natural lighting, like daylight. I found it particularly helpful for lighting scenes which are supposed to be outside - this scene is lit with one diffuse ibl light (with no image) coloured light blue with a low intensity, and one white infinite light to mimic the sun. The ibl light softens the shadows nicely.
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you're welcome and thank *you*
i do, indeed, have poser 6. i'll have to check it out, i've found natural looking outdoor lighting to be the most difficult.
ooh, just popped the link, the tutorial looks really good
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I like this one a lot...very atmospheric and 'real' feeling.
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Amazing and beautiful art.... nice landscape and ambient........
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Wonderful picture! I love how you posed her with the sword laying beside her and a nice DOF effect! Well done! I do DOF always in postwork but I let Cinema4D render a grayscale map with the depth information which I then use as input for the lensblur-filter in photoshop.
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Thank you
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This is a lovely and peaceful scene!!Wonderful done
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Thank you, & thanks for the 
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The depth of field worked out great, but I'm wondering if the angle is too wide. The girl looks "doll-like", but may be that's what you intended.
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Thanks, and which angle? I'm very ignorant of these things, for all I studied optics at university (albeit briefly, and a while ago)
I don't really mind the girl looking a bit doll like in this scene; the bg is unrealistic already...
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I'm thinking the "Focal" setting, 30mm is "wide angle", 50mm was the lens that came with my Pentax K1000 (so think of it as "normal"), and 100mm is telephoto. Howver, Poser 6 also has the "Perspective" setting, which I haven't played with much and I'm not sure has a camera analogue...
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I'm not convinced that the perspective setting does anything. I think I've tried changing it, but I think it just changed the angle too so they were always the same... I think I used an angle of about 50mm this time; I'll try my next scene with a larger angle and see how it turns out
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Thank you, & thanks for the
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that's a really good work, gj
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