• Fire Cauldron
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaoNSIzeUEY http://www.wduwant.com/index_uploads/uploads/397583d3515a.jpg
ok this is hella lit, literally
My only issue is the flares look a bit TOO blurred. They look clearly artificially blurred rather than DOF-blurred, or blurred as a result of being bloomed natural light. It might have been better to go over them with a fuzzy brush than blur them via filter/tool.
They are blurred because there is DOF, not for a bloom effect.
you can't just blur them as is and expect a convincing DOF bokeh though ignoring the fact that DOF differences between two objects drop very quickly as distance increases (talking about the trees versus flares, they should have more or less the same amount of blur), out of focus light sources tend to be slightly brighter than they are and their blur shape is identical to the shape of the relevant lens https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/710/5f9cef19-8b57-4318-b1a3-ee15f116ec25/image.png the blur is supposed to be, in most cases, easily outlined, not smeared. also, the star like shape of your flares' glow: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/710/0e1348e4-e05f-45d2-bc94-f4ac025c6634/image.png wouldn't be star like, it would be a radial gradient. the only reason some light sources appear to have rays when photographed is because of lens flare, it's not related to DOF - so in your case the final "DOF'd" render would be the one to have lens flare
I did NOT touch the flares, the DOF was made using an alpha mask and not by blurring the flares layer. They also have a star shaped glow effect because I used an actual picture for the background. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/US_Army_52253_Best_Warrior_At_Night.jpg/1200px-US_Army_52253_Best_Warrior_At_Night.jpg
but you DID touch the flares - the star like shape is a result of lens flare, onto which you then added DOF blur - when was the last time you saw DOF blurred lens flare? probably never (no such thing), and if you did it was because someone else made the same mistake; lens flare is what happens 'inside' the camera - it doesnt care for what was its source of light, it will draw the same every time and will never be affected by DOF
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