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Photo looks, lighting & styles · #05
Rembrandt lighting
High side light that leaves a lit triangle on the shadow cheek. A light 45° to the side and 45° up comes on; the right side of the face falls into shadow except for a small inverted triangle of light on the shadow-side cheek.
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Full motion specification
How the movement works
For portraits with a painterly, sculpted, classic look.
- 01Scene 1: a head-and-shoulders figure in front of a horizon at y 150 (head centre x 270, y 78, radius 29 px, no face or hair). the background drops to a darker scene (sky #E7E5E1)
- 02Head: right of x = 270 + 0.04·29 is shadow #33405A, left is light #FFC75A
- 03Light triangle: (x 270+0.24R, y 78−0.12R), (x 270+0.7R, y 78−0.12R), (x 270+0.24R, y 78+0.5R) with R = 29 (about 13 px wide, 18 px tall), separated from the lit side by a shadow strip about 6 px wide
- 04Body: lit left of centre −0.45×56 px, shadow right of +0.3×56 px; plan shows the light at 45°, top-right readout "45° · ↑45°"
- 05Timing: the effect comes in from 0.4 s to 1.4 s, holds until 4.0 s and is gone again by 4.8 s (one pass = 5 s, cubic ease-in-out (about cubic-bezier(0.65,0,0.35,1)))
Prompt
Portrait of an old man in Rembrandt lighting: light from 45° to the side and above, leaving a small triangle of light on the shadow-side cheek.