# Three-quarter view

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

The most natural angle on a face: depth and both eyes visible, without staring at the viewer.

- Use when: Portraits, interviews where the person talks to someone beside the camera.
- Phrase: three-quarter view, her face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/angle/three-quarter-view
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/angle/three-quarter-view.json

## Watch out

- For an interview look, name who she is looking at (the interviewer beside the camera). Otherwise the model makes her look into the lens. (unverified; Not measured yet, check on the first example)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens. [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

## Goes well with

- Side profile: https://directorchair.ai/angle/profile-shot
- Close-up: https://directorchair.ai/shot/close-up
- Eye level: https://directorchair.ai/angle/eye-level

## 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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