• “Bokeh” is the name for out-of-focus areas of a photograph.

TTG allows bokeh that is rendered by the lens (as happened with standalone cameras long before there were smartphones).

• “Fokeh” (faux bokeh) is the software blurring that makes areas of a photo look like they were rendered out of focus (as billions of smartphones can do in “Portrait” mode).

If you can change the amount of blur after you take the photo, you are seeing fokeh, not genuine bokeh.

Why does TTG disqualify photos with fokeh?

TTG disqualifies fokeh in P2 because for multiple reasons, including that there is no way to put limits on it.

Unlike lens-rendered bokeh, fokeh can be carried to optically implausible extremes* — and the TTG label would be worthless if it approved of photos depicting optically implausible extremes.

Fortunately, TTG photographers who take smartphone photos with fokeh (usually in “Portrait” mode or its equivalent) can easily undo it by moving the slider to the highest number so that a maximum amount of the scene is in focus.

*An example would be a standard group photo in which all but one face was later blurred out because “each face is a different distance from the camera.”