Skip, shallow DoF means that there is only a very small subject, or small amount of the subject, in focus, + the rest of the image is OOF. Bokeh is a term used to describe the OOF area of the image. Simple (to me, anyway!)
"Bokeh (from the Japanese boke ぼけ, "blur"[1]) is a photographic term referring to out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens."
Bokeh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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