Hello.
I created interior scene to help my wife in her work (she is interior designer, technically mostly in 3dsmax), so I reached more or less eligible results, and want you to make some technical criticism.
And one more thing, every picture takes me for 50 minutes to render on two i5 CPUs, so any suggestions to reduce the render time? For now I do 1000 samples with noise reduction in Gimp.
So does any render speed optimization planning for cycles?
Another thing you can do is play with curves, saturation, vignette and lens distortion. Ah, and DOF is welcome too. I did a quick little change on the last picture to show an example and I hope you don’t mind. http://i.imgur.com/UbniQBs.jpg
I don’t think 50 minutes is bad. I am doing some similar stuff and one was nearly 2 hours. But I am fairly new at cycles, so I have a lot to learn about the settings.