# Volumetric light

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

Visible beams through haze: sacred, epic, atmospheric.

- Use when: Churches, forests, warehouses, product reveals in haze.
- Phrase: light beams through the high windows, visible in the dust in the air, falling across the floor
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/light/volumetric-light
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/light/volumetric-light.json

## Watch out

- Name what makes the beams visible (dust, haze, steam). Without it the model draws glowing stripes. (unverified; Not measured yet)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Enhance the atmosphere with volumetric lighting, rendering visible rays of light cutting through haze or dust motes in the air.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Enhance the atmosphere with volumetric lighting, rendering visible rays of light cutting through haze or dust motes in the air.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: light beams through the high windows, visible in the dust in the air, falling across the floor
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Light beams through the high windows, visible in the dust in the air, falling across the floor.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Light: light beams through the high windows, visible in the dust in the air, falling across the floor
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Light: light beams through the high windows, visible in the dust in the air, falling across the floor
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Light beams through the high windows, visible in the dust in the air, falling across the floor.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Light beams through the high windows, visible in the dust in the air, falling across the floor.
```

## 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

## 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.