# Side profile

Camera / Angle / Viewpoint. Checked 2026-10-13.

Shows a person in thought or in motion, at a distance from the viewer.

- Use when: Someone walking, working or looking at something out of frame.
- Phrase: side profile, the camera level with his face at a right angle to it, more space in front of his face than behind his head
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/angle/profile-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/angle/profile-shot.json

## Watch out

- Leave room in front of the face in the direction of the look. Without it the frame feels cramped. (film-craft; Camera grammar)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate
- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film examples of this angle (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills of this angle (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Three-quarter view: https://directorchair.ai/angle/three-quarter-view
- From behind: https://directorchair.ai/angle/back-view

## Source

Own words, from the first Director Chair spec and Director Chair field notes on video prompting; pitfalls from the sources named per pitfall

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