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# 6 21-12-2010 , 03:59 AM
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I still think it's a bit too much, you need to make it barely visible in the shot. I like the idea I just think it's difficult to get dof to work in it with that camera angle. Have a look at this, it's done by David Mitchell for Simply Lightwave, it's not meant an ad but I couldn't find the original image so I took the one from the tutorial page as this guy is great with camerasuser added image

YouTube - Lighting techniques for photorealistic visualization

If you look at the toy car it's the angle of the camera and the way the dof works that makes that shot. For the pens you wouldn't catch it unless you were looking for it, and it's the way the camera moves that makes it interesting as well.
These things just take time it's about studying renders and camera techniques in films and photography. One thing as well to note on dof in Maya, it's so slow to render. I was doing a simple pen on wood a while back and it took 25 minutes, so it's better done in post.

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