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Originally Posted by Chewy734
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If you take a photo that is evenly lit and exposed correctly, then you get a bokeh with no circles (smooth/creamy), but if there are some light sources then even with an evenly lit background you'll still get the bokeh circles you see in your 2nd pic.
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The shape of the bokeh will vary from lens to lens, impacted by things like the number of leaves in the aperture, focal length, etc. A point of lightness may well look like a circle, or in many cases an aperture shaped hexagon or octagon. I think that's still bokeh and we have many examples in the links provided and a few in this contest. The BG detail must be obscured to a degree that the details are more than simply OOF, but start getting hard to identify.
We have few example that obscure every detail in the background, as in most but not all of the bird shots. The BG looks like a green or blue or white brushed paint. That's clearly bokeh, but making that the standard wouldn't be fair for this contest because it usually means that a long focal length was used, which many can't afford.
Dave