# Hip level

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

A grounded, slightly low view that puts the hands and the body language in play.

- Use when: Standoffs, people at work with their hands, cowboy-framed walk-ups.
- Phrase: camera at hip height, level or tilted a touch upward, her hands and belt line in the frame
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/angle/hip-level
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/angle/hip-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 hip height, level or tilted a touch upward, the subject's hands and belt line in the frame.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Camera at hip height, level or tilted a touch upward, the subject's hands and belt line in the frame.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: camera at hip height, level or tilted a touch upward, the subject's hands and belt line in the frame
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Camera at hip height, level or tilted a touch upward, the subject's hands and belt line in the frame.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: camera at hip height, level or tilted a touch upward, the subject's hands and belt line in the frame
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: camera at hip height, level or tilted a touch upward, the subject's hands and belt line in the frame
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Camera at hip height, level or tilted a touch upward, the subject's hands and belt line in the frame.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Camera at hip height, level or tilted a touch upward, the subject's hands and belt line in the frame. [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

- Cowboy shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/cowboy-shot
- Knee level: https://directorchair.ai/angle/knee-level
- Chest level: https://directorchair.ai/angle/chest-level

## Source

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

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.