# Practical lights

Light and look / Light / Natural. Checked 2026-10-13.

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
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/light/practical-light
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/light/practical-light.json

## Watch out

- Catchlights from a named source in the scene (overhead café lights) keep eyes believable. (practitioner; Chase AI community library via Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## 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 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: lit by the lamps in the room: a desk lamp beside the subject and a pendant over the table, warm pools of light
Exclusions: 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].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Light: 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].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Light: lit by the lamps in the room: a desk lamp beside the subject and a pendant over the table, warm pools of light
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[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.
```

## 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

- Window light: https://directorchair.ai/light/window-light
- Night: https://directorchair.ai/time/night

## Source

Director Chair field notes on image prompting

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