# Fog and mist

Light and look / Time of day / Daylight. Checked 2026-11-13.

Depth fades into white; the world feels hushed or uncertain.

- Use when: Mystery, morning rituals, landscapes, a figure appearing out of nowhere.
- Phrase: thick morning fog, the trees ten metres back fading to pale grey, the far background gone completely
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/time/fog
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/time/fog.json

## Watch out

- Keep one time of day and one weather for the whole job, written the same in every prompt; a mix makes cuts that do not match. (practitioner; Director Chair field notes on video prompting)
- Say how far one can see; fog without a distance comes back as a light haze. (practitioner; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Thick morning fog, the trees ten metres back fading to pale grey, the far background gone completely.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Thick morning fog, the trees ten metres back fading to pale grey, the far background gone completely.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: thick morning fog, the trees ten metres back fading to pale grey, the far background gone completely
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Thick morning fog, the trees ten metres back fading to pale grey, the far background gone completely.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Light: thick morning fog, the trees ten metres back fading to pale grey, the far background gone completely
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Light: thick morning fog, the trees ten metres back fading to pale grey, the far background gone completely
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Thick morning fog, the trees ten metres back fading to pale grey, the far background gone completely.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Thick morning fog, the trees ten metres back fading to pale grey, the far background gone completely.
```

## Look further

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

## Goes well with

- Volumetric light: https://directorchair.ai/light/volumetric-light
- Overcast: https://directorchair.ai/time/overcast-light
- Backlight: https://directorchair.ai/light/backlight

## Source

Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters

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