{
 "slug": "scale-against-person",
 "name": "Scale against a person",
 "category": "composition",
 "group": "Rules",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Makes the size of an object believable.",
 "use_when": "Products, furniture, signage, installations.",
 "phrase": "the top of the panel clears the top of her head by about a quarter of her height, a contact shadow under each foot",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Metres mean nothing to the model; clearances against a person do. After two or three failed tries, add an object of known size or fix it in the edit.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "framing-first",
  "low-angle"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "measured",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/composition/scale-against-person",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/composition/scale-against-person.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The top of the panel clears the top of the subject's head by about a quarter of the subject's height, a contact shadow under each foot.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The top of the panel clears the top of the subject's head by about a quarter of the subject's height, a contact shadow under each foot.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: the top of the panel clears the top of the subject's head by about a quarter of the subject's height, a contact shadow under each foot\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The top of the panel clears the top of the subject's head by about a quarter of the subject's height, a contact shadow under each foot.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: the top of the panel clears the top of the subject's head by about a quarter of the subject's height, a contact shadow under each foot\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: the top of the panel clears the top of the subject's head by about a quarter of the subject's height, a contact shadow under each foot\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The top of the panel clears the top of the subject's head by about a quarter of the subject's height, a contact shadow under each foot.",
  "veo-3.1": "The top of the panel clears the top of the subject's head by about a quarter of the subject's height, a contact shadow under each foot. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}