# Extreme close-up

Camera / Shot size / Distance. Checked 2026-10-13.

Isolates one detail so it carries the meaning: an eye, a fingertip, a texture.

- Use when: Product texture, ingredients, the detail that proves quality.
- Phrase: extreme close-up, one detail fills the frame, the edges of the object run out of the frame
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/shot/extreme-close-up
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/shot/extreme-close-up.json

## Watch out

- Perfect or flawless surfaces read as AI. Name the real texture: pores, fibres, scratches, condensation. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Frame the shot as an extreme close-up, isolating the minute details of the subject to fill the entire composition.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Frame the shot as an extreme close-up, isolating the minute details of the subject to fill the entire composition.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: extreme close-up, one detail fills the frame, the edges of the object run out of the frame
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Extreme close-up, one detail fills the frame, the edges of the object run out of the frame.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: extreme close-up, one detail fills the frame, the edges of the object run out of the frame
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: extreme close-up, one detail fills the frame, the edges of the object run out of the frame
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Extreme close-up, one detail fills the frame, the edges of the object run out of the frame.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Extreme close-up, one detail fills the frame, the edges of the object run out of the frame. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames to search by framing (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film and ad stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)
- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage that sets this value and writes it into the prompt

## Goes well with

- Close-up: https://directorchair.ai/shot/close-up
- Insert shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/insert-shot

## Source

Own words, from the first Director Chair spec and Director Chair field notes on video prompting; pitfalls from the sources named per pitfall

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