# Overcast

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

Soft, shadowless grey daylight: calm, honest, a bit melancholic.

- Use when: Documentary, Nordic and minimal looks, skin and product detail without harsh shadows.
- Phrase: a fully overcast sky, soft even daylight from above, no hard shadows, muted colours
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/time/overcast-light
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/time/overcast-light.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)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. A fully overcast sky, soft even daylight from above, no hard shadows, muted colours.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. A fully overcast sky, soft even daylight from above, no hard shadows, muted colours.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: a fully overcast sky, soft even daylight from above, no hard shadows, muted colours
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. A fully overcast sky, soft even daylight from above, no hard shadows, muted colours.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Light: a fully overcast sky, soft even daylight from above, no hard shadows, muted colours
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Light: a fully overcast sky, soft even daylight from above, no hard shadows, muted colours
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. A fully overcast sky, soft even daylight from above, no hard shadows, muted colours.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. A fully overcast sky, soft even daylight from above, no hard shadows, muted colours.
```

## Look further

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

## Goes well with

- Soft light: https://directorchair.ai/light/soft-light
- High noon: https://directorchair.ai/time/high-noon
- Fog and mist: https://directorchair.ai/time/fog

## Source

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

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