{
 "slug": "macro-lens",
 "name": "Macro",
 "category": "lens",
 "group": "Special",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Reveals texture the eye never sees: pores, fibres, droplets.",
 "use_when": "Product detail, ingredients, beauty, nature.",
 "phrase": "macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, the texture of the fabric filling the frame, a thin slice in focus",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "A macro shot pulls texture detail such as skin pores; combine it with an unretouched-skin line or it turns plastic.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [
  {
   "model": "nano-banana-pro",
   "phrase": "Use a macro lens to reveal microscopic textures and details invisible to the naked eye.",
   "evidence": "unverified",
   "checked": "2025-12-08"
  }
 ],
 "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": [
  "extreme-close-up",
  "shallow-focus"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "The first Director Chair spec, own words"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/lens/macro-lens",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/lens/macro-lens.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting].\nCapture: Use a macro lens to reveal microscopic textures and details invisible to the naked eye",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting].\nCapture: Use a macro lens to reveal microscopic textures and details invisible to the naked eye",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, the texture of the fabric filling the frame, a thin slice in focus\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting].\nCapture: macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, the texture of the fabric filling the frame, a thin slice in focus",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, the texture of the fabric filling the frame, a thin slice in focus.",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, the texture of the fabric filling the frame, a thin slice in focus.",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, the texture of the fabric filling the frame, a thin slice in focus.",
  "veo-3.1": "Macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, the texture of the fabric filling the frame, a thin slice in focus. [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."
 }
}