Blender Cycles: Lighting and Rendering Cookbook

Using the Cycles camera's depth of field

Creating images using a 3D program is often all about imitating reality. When we take a picture, something that often occurs is that some of the objects are out of focus. Such an effect is called depth of field (DOF) and is what we are going to recreate in this recipe.

Getting ready

Our first scene in Cycles is almost ready. However, we can still do a couple of things to make it look even more realistic. We will now see how to add a nice DOF effect.

How to do it...

To recreate the DOF effect in Cycles, let's follow these steps:

1. Let's jump in now to our scene in Blender and select the camera. First of all we need to set the point in the scene where we want to keep the focus. To do this we need to select the camera ...