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Questions tagged [depth-of-field]

Depth of Field (DoF) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp when using a lens based camera, although the term is commonly used to simply refer to the presence of unfocused areas.

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How to create real tilt-shift lens blur in Blender?

I basically want to rotate the DoF-Plane just as a real tilt-shift lens does, so that the depth influences the blur and not a gradient. Is there a way to recreate this effect in blender?
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Can I control depth of focus (v depth deph of field)

I'm creating some studio-shot style images of products. I'm trying to get the foreground elements in focus while having the background blur slightly. I've done a lot of real world studio photography and I know that depth of focus and depth of field…
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Swirly bokeh like that of a Helios 44m 2/58?

I recently discovered the Helios 44m, a lense which produces some awesome swirly bokeh effect unlike anything else I've seen. I can't get one for myself, but I was wondering if there's a way to recreate this? I know the basics about DOF and I can…
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Blender 2.76b Depth of Field doesn't work

Blender 2.76b Depth of Field doesn't work. Any idea why?
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Depth of field in viewport and render different

I've same values for depth of field for viewport and render but I'm getting different results. This is depth of field correctly working in viewport, this is the aim: This is what I get after rendering: These are my settings:
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Get a full numeric z-depth from a rendered image

I know this issue has been mentioned before but I looked at all similar questions and did not find my exact answer. So here is my problem: I need to get a full depth map of my render. I mean the distance of all pixels from camera. Answers usually…
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How do you make grouped objects a focus point without moving the camera?

In my blend, I am trying to focus on a pile of doughnuts and then focus on them. While doing this, blurring the background and the side windows without losing some of the detail on them but making them quite blurred. How would I do this? I Have…
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Blender 2.91.2 zooming out from an object until it disappears but will not come back when zooming in

Just loaded Blender 2.91.2 and the object in question is a small table (size x 240mm, y 150mm, z 230mm) and clip start settings are 0.001mm and clip end settings 100000mm. Furthermore, if I zoom out until the object is just before the vanishing…
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plane/3d object depth of field problem

I have a 3d frog and a plane with an image of a foot. but despite both being equidistant to the camera, foot is out of focus except for where it is in front of froggy. If you look at the image, you can see what I mean, especially near his right…
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(EEVEE) Can't get Depth Of Field to focus on one object! (.Blend file included)

i'm currently having a huge problem where i cant seem to make the camera focus on only one object, i want it to focus on the rabbit character: https://i.gyazo.com/8a12c2843f8448bd6b2120e10753aa2e.gif Yes i did "Focus on Object" as well, help would…
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