I personally don't like either of those screenshots. I'll take the e3 2014 incarnation of the renderer any day. It was beautiful then, imo.
Go rewatch the uncompressed 35 min gameplay demo and cry inside lol.
On a small secondary note: I found out how to make the UI scale (smaller / or larger) than the defaults allow. Also to adjust the uiOpacity. It's in the hud_settings.csv, though, and you need to use quick bms to repack it.
Made the UI tiny as a test, see below;
witcher3 2015-06-08 00-33-20-06
Is dof On in this pic? Without dof theoretically the fog shoudn't be there