{
 "slug": "blue-hour",
 "name": "Blue hour",
 "category": "time",
 "group": "Low light",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Cool twilight with the city lights coming on; calm, melancholy, urban.",
 "use_when": "Cityscapes, hospitality at dusk, reflective moments.",
 "phrase": "blue hour just after sunset, deep blue sky, the windows and street lamps already lit warm",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Cinematic lighting says nothing to the model. Name the source, where it comes from and the fill (soft overcast key from frame left).",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [
  {
   "model": "nano-banana-pro",
   "phrase": "Capture the scene during blue hour, utilizing cool, ambient twilight tones and soft, shadowless illumination.",
   "evidence": "unverified",
   "checked": "2025-12-08"
  }
 ],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film frames to search by framing and lens (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film and ad stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "golden-hour",
  "night"
 ],
 "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/time/blue-hour",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/time/blue-hour.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Capture the scene during blue hour, utilizing cool, ambient twilight tones and soft, shadowless illumination.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Capture the scene during blue hour, utilizing cool, ambient twilight tones and soft, shadowless illumination.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: blue hour just after sunset, deep blue sky, the windows and street lamps already lit warm\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Blue hour just after sunset, deep blue sky, the windows and street lamps already lit warm.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nLight: blue hour just after sunset, deep blue sky, the windows and street lamps already lit warm",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nLight: blue hour just after sunset, deep blue sky, the windows and street lamps already lit warm",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Blue hour just after sunset, deep blue sky, the windows and street lamps already lit warm.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Blue hour just after sunset, deep blue sky, the windows and street lamps already lit warm."
 },
 "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."
 }
}