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Photo looks, lighting & styles · #18
Low-key
A dark image where only the lit parts stand out. Most of the frame sinks into darkness and the sun goes out; only the right edge of the bust, lit from the side, stays bright. The histogram hump moves to the left end.
Tones & finishing lookslow-keylow keydarkblack backgroundmoodydramaticchiaroscuro
Full motion specification
How the movement works
For luxurious, tense or mysterious images.
- 01Scene 3: a bust on the left (head centre x 140, y 82, radius 28 px) and hills, a house, trees and the sun (x 432, y 54, radius 15 px) on the right.
- 02Colour: sky #FAF9F7 → #2B2D33, hills → #313339 and #36383E, ground → #24252A, figure → #25272E; the sun and its rings take the sky colour and disappear
- 03The lit right edge of the bust stays, #FFC75A → #FFB547
- 04Histogram: peak centre 0.56 → 0.14, width 0.2 → 0.08
- 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
Low-key shot of a whisky bottle on black, a single side light, only the lit edges showing and most of the frame in deep black.