# Season

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

The time of year sets colour, clothing and mood at once.

- Use when: Seasonal campaigns, product launches tied to a time of year, a story told over a year.
- Phrase: late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/time/season
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/time/season.json

## Watch out

- Show the season in three places (plants, light, clothing); one cue alone gets lost. (practitioner; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Cues per season

- **Spring:** fresh green, blossom, light jackets, clear soft light
- **Summer:** high sun, saturated colour, bare arms, heat haze
- **Autumn:** orange and brown, wet leaves, coats, low sun
- **Winter:** bare trees, snow or frost, breath in the air, short grey days

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Light: late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Light: late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves.
```

## Look further

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

## Goes well with

- Snow: https://directorchair.ai/time/snow
- Golden hour: https://directorchair.ai/time/golden-hour
- The look block: https://directorchair.ai/look/global-look-block

## Source

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

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