Bokeh

Let out-of-focus lights become soft shapes influenced by the lens and aperture, adding a background layer without becoming the subject.

Prompt

Render only this one edited view from the selected accepted A. Keep Shami's eyes, face, complete ears, hair strands, ribbon, pendant, shoulder edges and costume crisply readable at the identical size and position. Apply strongly shallow optical depth of field to the distant garden behind her, so trees and grass merge into smooth broad color masses with no distinct leaf or fixture-frame detail. Each of the same seven distant compact light sources becomes a large soft-edged round optical bokeh disc centred on its original luminous core, clearly visible around and behind the portrait at gallery thumbnail size. Make the near-sharp/far-blurred separation visually emphatic; a subtle blur is insufficient. Let distant sources form believable varied disc sizes according to depth, but keep their original light colors and brightness relationships. Do not add sources, halos, bloom, foreground glow or white fog. Preserve Shami exactly and keep her silhouette naturally separated from the defocused background. One of the existing seven lights is hidden behind Shami in A and must stay hidden; do not create a new visible disc for that occluded lamp or let background lights show through her opaque silhouette. Preserve the partial occlusion of any source at her hair edge.

Text: fuse technique research · Examples: imagery generated in-house at fuse (Characters: Shami · Setting: Open grassland at night)

Other techniques

In the baseline close-up, the grass, shrubs and distant lights behind Shami still have recognizable shapes.

The bokeh version keeps the eyes, hair and collar sharp while strongly softening the distant setting and turning the existing lights into soft discs.

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Effect comparison

In the baseline close-up, the grass, shrubs and distant lights behind Shami still have recognizable shapes. The bokeh version keeps the eyes, hair and collar sharp while strongly softening the distant setting and turning the existing lights into soft discs. Sharpness separates foreground from background and concentrates attention on the face, while the distant points of light add a gentle atmosphere.