{
 "slug": "moonlight",
 "name": "Moonlight",
 "category": "light",
 "group": "Natural",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "Cool, low, quiet night light where shapes still read.",
 "use_when": "Night exteriors, romance, suspense, a figure in a field.",
 "phrase": "cool blue moonlight from high on her right, soft shadows, the landscape visible in dim silver, the sky dark blue not black",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "A style word for light does nothing. Name the source, where it sits against the person, and what fills the shadow side.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
  },
  {
   "text": "Real night is black. Ask for dim blue light with visible shapes, the way films fake it.",
   "evidence": "film-craft",
   "source": "General film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film examples of this lighting (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills of this lighting (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "night",
  "day-for-night",
  "blue-hour"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/light/moonlight",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/light/moonlight.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Cool blue moonlight from high on the subject's right, soft shadows, the landscape visible in dim silver, the sky dark blue not black.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Cool blue moonlight from high on the subject's right, soft shadows, the landscape visible in dim silver, the sky dark blue not black.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: cool blue moonlight from high on the subject's right, soft shadows, the landscape visible in dim silver, the sky dark blue not black\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Cool blue moonlight from high on the subject's right, soft shadows, the landscape visible in dim silver, the sky dark blue not black.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nLight: cool blue moonlight from high on the subject's right, soft shadows, the landscape visible in dim silver, the sky dark blue not black",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nLight: cool blue moonlight from high on the subject's right, soft shadows, the landscape visible in dim silver, the sky dark blue not black",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Cool blue moonlight from high on the subject's right, soft shadows, the landscape visible in dim silver, the sky dark blue not black.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Cool blue moonlight from high on the subject's right, soft shadows, the landscape visible in dim silver, the sky dark blue not black."
 },
 "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."
 }
}