So play around with the Aparture and I hope you learned something! My name is Ferdy Korpershoek and I will see you next time. So if you want to make your computer cry.

This will also increase the rendertime a lot. If you want to increase the quality of the blurred areas in the image, go to the render settings/physical and set the sampling quality to ‘high‘. This function comes in handy when you have a moving object that you want to be in focus all the time. In this case I will drag the orange dice into it. In order to do that, go to the object tab of the camera, go to Focus Object and drag an object into the field. We can also align the depth of field to an object.

Turn on the camera again and as you see the green dice in front is sharp and everything around it becomes blurry. Now deselect the camera and move this point towards the object or area that you want to be sharp in the image. I will change it to 1 and turn on the movie camera function. The lower this value, the shallower the depth of field will be. Change the standard render settings to the psycical render settings, add Depth Of Field, go to the camera, to the physical tab and there you have the Aperture or F-Stop. In order to do that, go to the render settings by hitting Command B or this icon. Well, even though you can see this is an computer generated image, we can add some realism by creating Depth Of Field in this picture. And if we render it we can see that all the objects in the scene are rendered perfectly sharp. But the results produced are quite remarkable, and often worth the shortcomings, especially if photorealism is your goal.Hello and welcome to this tutorial about Depth Of Field! What we have here is a simple scene with dices. Old schoolers may not find the physical rendering engine as useful, as there are some notable restrictions to its use, and the longer render times might be prohibitive under certain circumstances. You will get truly accurate motion blur, depth of field (with bokeh), film exposure controls, actual illumination that matches lighting guides for television and cinema, and so on. The Physical Render Engine in Cinema 4D lets you render with ultimate realism using real camera settings like focal length, shutter speed, aperture. It’s also a great new feature in some versions of Cinema 4D Release 13! When used in conjunction with the physical camera, the results are as close as possible to what you would get if you used a camera and photograph an actual scene in the real world. Physical Rendering refers to a process of synthetic imaging that follows the rules of the nature of light and materials as closely as possible, within the limits of modern technology.

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