# Chest level

Camera / Angle / Height. Checked 2026-11-13.

Close to eye level but a hair lower, so the person reads as present and a little taller.

- Use when: Interviews, talking heads, handheld documentary work.
- Phrase: camera at chest height, looking straight at him, the lens a hand below his eye line
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/angle/chest-level
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/angle/chest-level.json

## Watch out

- Angles given in degrees are often ignored. Say where the lens sits against the body (at her knee, at her hip) instead. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Camera at chest height, looking straight at the subject, the lens a hand below the subject's eye line.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Camera at chest height, looking straight at the subject, the lens a hand below the subject's eye line.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: camera at chest height, looking straight at the subject, the lens a hand below the subject's eye line
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Camera at chest height, looking straight at the subject, the lens a hand below the subject's eye line.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: camera at chest height, looking straight at the subject, the lens a hand below the subject's eye line
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: camera at chest height, looking straight at the subject, the lens a hand below the subject's eye line
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Camera at chest height, looking straight at the subject, the lens a hand below the subject's eye line.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Camera at chest height, looking straight at the subject, the lens a hand below the subject's eye line. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage that sets this value and writes it into the prompt

## Goes well with

- Eye level: https://directorchair.ai/angle/eye-level
- Hip level: https://directorchair.ai/angle/hip-level
- Handheld: https://directorchair.ai/move/handheld-shot

## Source

Own words; the term from the controls of the free 3D stage at aicameracontrol.com, read 13 Nov 2026

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