# Macro

Camera / Lens / Special. Checked 2026-10-13.

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
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/lens/macro-lens
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/lens/macro-lens.json

## Watch out

- A macro shot pulls texture detail such as skin pores; combine it with an unretouched-skin line or it turns plastic. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: Use a macro lens to reveal microscopic textures and details invisible to the naked eye
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: Use a macro lens to reveal microscopic textures and details invisible to the naked eye
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, the texture of the fabric filling the frame, a thin slice in focus
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: 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].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Optics 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].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, the texture of the fabric filling the frame, a thin slice in focus.
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[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.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Extreme close-up: https://directorchair.ai/shot/extreme-close-up
- Shallow depth of field: https://directorchair.ai/focus/shallow-focus

## Source

The first Director Chair spec, own words

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.