AI Midjourney lighting prompts

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Lighting is an important element that can dramatically affect the mood, emotion, and atmosphere of an image. Midjourney allows you to guide the lighting using descriptive prompts, whether you desire soft or harsh, natural or artificial, high key or low key lighting.

Tips for using lighting prompts with Midjourney to create dramatic and moody images:

• Specify light sources – “lit by candlelight”, “under a spotlight”, “next to a campfire”, “beside a glowing lava lamp”

 

• Describe directionality – “light streaming in from the left”, “bright backlight behind the subject”, “lit from below”

 

• Use color – “blue neon lighting”, “bright warm lighting”, “green atmospheric lighting”

 

• Play with contrasts – “high contrast chiaroscuro”, “low key lighting”, “silhouetted against a bright background”

 

• Create moods – “dark and moody”, “soft and mystical”, “harsh and intense”, “romantic lighting”

 

• Leverage natural light – “sunrise lighting”, “sunset colors”, “moonlight”, “sunbeams streaming through trees”

 

• Match genres – “film noir lighting”, “horror movie red lighting”, “concert stage lighting”

 

• Get technical – “Rembrandt lighting”, “rim lighting”, “cinema color grading”

 

Examples of full prompts with lighting:

“A robot playing chess by the warm light of a burning fireplace, detailed shadows”

“An astronaut floating in space lit by the glow of nearby nebulae and galaxies”

“A moody black and white portrait of a jazz musician spotlit on a smoky stage”

A sunny beach scene with golden hour light streaming across the water

An elegant dining table lit by ornate candelabras with diffused candlelight glow

A lush forest waterfall illuminated by bright shafts of light breaking through the tree canopy

A cute puppy photographed in a studio with butterfly lighting to show facial details

A brooding lighthouse standing tall beside crashing waves, shrouded in thick fog with a single beam cutting through

A still life painting of fruit arranged on a windowsill with side lighting to add depth and shadows

An empty theater with a ballerina alone on stage under the spotlight’s dramatic cone of light

A flower garden lit by paper lanterns hanging above, creating a soft warm lighting atmosphere

By thoughtfully describing the lighting qualities you want, Midjourney can better set the overall mood, emotion, and focal points of the image through lighting. Feel free to specify natural light, artificial sources, colors, contrasts, and directionality in your prompts.