{
 "slug": "practical-light",
 "name": "Practical lights",
 "category": "light",
 "group": "Natural",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "The light comes from lamps you can see in the scene; warm and lived-in.",
 "use_when": "Homes, cafés, bars, evening interiors.",
 "phrase": "lit by the lamps in the room: a desk lamp beside him and a pendant over the table, warm pools of light",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Catchlights from a named source in the scene (overhead café lights) keep eyes believable.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Chase AI community library via 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": [
  "window-light",
  "night"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/light/practical-light",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/light/practical-light.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Lit by the lamps in the room: a desk lamp beside the subject and a pendant over the table, warm pools of light.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Lit by the lamps in the room: a desk lamp beside the subject and a pendant over the table, warm pools of light.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: lit by the lamps in the room: a desk lamp beside the subject and a pendant over the table, warm pools of light\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Lit by the lamps in the room: a desk lamp beside the subject and a pendant over the table, warm pools of light.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nLight: lit by the lamps in the room: a desk lamp beside the subject and a pendant over the table, warm pools of light",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nLight: lit by the lamps in the room: a desk lamp beside the subject and a pendant over the table, warm pools of light",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Lit by the lamps in the room: a desk lamp beside the subject and a pendant over the table, warm pools of light.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Lit by the lamps in the room: a desk lamp beside the subject and a pendant over the table, warm pools of light."
 },
 "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."
 }
}