# Fisheye lens

Camera / Lens / Special. Checked 2026-11-13.

Bent lines and a huge field of view: playful, skate, music video, surveillance.

- Use when: Skate and street culture, music videos, comedy close-ups, peephole views.
- Phrase: a fisheye lens, the edges of the frame curving strongly, the face close to the lens and bulging, the whole room visible around her
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/lens/fisheye-lens
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/lens/fisheye-lens.json

## Watch out

- A fisheye bends straight lines at the edges; keep important text and logos in the centre. (film-craft; General film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: a fisheye lens, the edges of the frame curving strongly, the face close to the lens and bulging, the whole room visible around the subject
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: a fisheye lens, the edges of the frame curving strongly, the face close to the lens and bulging, the whole room visible around the subject
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: a fisheye lens, the edges of the frame curving strongly, the face close to the lens and bulging, the whole room visible around the subject
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: a fisheye lens, the edges of the frame curving strongly, the face close to the lens and bulging, the whole room visible around the subject
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Optics and camera: A fisheye lens, the edges of the frame curving strongly, the face close to the lens and bulging, the whole room visible around the subject.
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: A fisheye lens, the edges of the frame curving strongly, the face close to the lens and bulging, the whole room visible around the subject.
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. A fisheye lens, the edges of the frame curving strongly, the face close to the lens and bulging, the whole room visible around the subject.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
A fisheye lens, the edges of the frame curving strongly, the face close to the lens and bulging, the whole room visible around the subject. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film examples of this lens (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills of this lens (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Ultra wide lens: https://directorchair.ai/lens/ultra-wide-lens
- Action cam: https://directorchair.ai/rig/action-cam-rig
- Wide lens (24mm): https://directorchair.ai/lens/wide-lens

## Source

Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters (lens size Ultra Wide / Fisheye) and general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters

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