Film Noir Photography
Photography · Noir · Black And White
Recipe
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Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.
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A black and white film noir photograph. A figure in a hat stands in a small office lit by a single hard key light from a window on the right, venetian blind shadows falling across the back wall and across the figure. No fill light, shadows falling to true black, a thin plume of cigarette smoke catching the beam. Low camera angle, tight framing, 35mm black and white film grain, deep contrast.
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Recommended settings
- Size
- 1536 x 1024
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1No fill light is the most important phrase. Models add fill unless told not to.
- 2Put a shape in the light path. Blinds, railings, a fan, a doorway.
- 3Smoke gives the beam something to land on and reads as period instantly.
Things to try
Wet street
rain on asphalt, a single street lamp, reflections doing the lighting
Interrogation
a bare bulb overhead, two figures, hard downward shadow
Stairwell from above
a spiral stair shot straight down, geometric shadow
Nightclub
a stage light, smoke, a singer in silhouette
Colour noir
the same lighting in colour with sodium street lamps
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