It does not give desired result.
Getting Dof right in post for artsy stuff like this can be tricky. But with a zdeph pass you have much more freedom to do so in post. You can also do a levels adjustment for the house to be completely in focus and paint over a zdepth pass where the levels were adjusted to blur a maximum amount of forest.
Frischluft LensCare has a feature specifiacll dedicated for stretching the DepthOfField (meaning the sharp part) non-physically correct to get around exactly the problem of having either too much of the subject blurred or too little of the very close other detail.
Also offtopic:
Parents have much agriculture experience and the grass/tile combo will never work out IRL (unless it's fake grass), if you don't dedicate a specialist to do so. Have seen a similar grass/tile combo, although bigger in size with problems like: grass will grow non uniform - no way around that. Patches where people step on it - that will be gone in no time. Grass will start to nag on the stone tiles, when roots start to push a year or 2 in, unless reinforced to prevent that fun stuff. (remeber the pea in cement school experiment from biology :D ) and getting it cut down to be uniform in height will require some dude with siccors to to each grass tile by hand.
Thanks! Got to try this out some day.
