atmosphere · 1 recipe
Atmospheric Haze
Distance-dependent scattering lowers contrast and shifts far scenery toward the sky color while nearby objects remain clearer.
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Atmospheric Haze
This is the default recipe for the Atmospheric Perspective Haze family.
Free short AI video prompt
A starter line you can copy. The full timed recipe, still-image and production prompts are on the shot card.
Prompt rule: Make contrast loss and color convergence increase with distance. Keep nearby markers relatively clear and distant layers spatially stable; do not use uniform blur or a lens-attached fog overlay.
Atmospheric Haze: Distance-dependent scattering lowers contrast and shifts far scenery toward the sky color while nearby objects remain clearer. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- Pull the ridge or terrain hierarchy apart in the wide view to establish scale and depth.
- How it works
- Arrange near stones, characters, and several layers of distant mountains, and make clear the relative distance./Keep the camera steady, the character only moves the flag, do not touch the nearby stone marker, check the distal contrast diminishing.
- Common mistakes
- Near rocks and mountains kilometers away were washed with the same ash./Blurred declaration of distant mountains as air scattering.
How to read this page
Atmospheric Haze is one technique in Atmosphere. The definition states the single mechanism the frame has to show. The technique guide covers when to use it, the steps, the usual mistakes, how it differs from the neighbors, and what a successful take looks like.
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Prompt versions
Same technique, different prompts. Version A is the latest prompt; older versions are the exact prompts that kept clips were made from. Each version shows every model that used it.
Version A · latest：Surveyor turns a marker flag · layered ridges
Version A · Scene of this version (English, verbatim)
A surveyor checks a handheld marker flag on a hill above three receding terraces.
The full prompt of every version comes with the member recipe.
sha256 067e15ed46ac
Recipe
8 seconds · single take
Japan, 1575, on the eve of battle: on a hill above three receding ridges, a young samurai scout turns the small clan banner on its pole to signal the army below, beside a weathered stone boundary marker.
Shot cards
The full recipe for Atmospheric Haze is a shot card
The full recipe for Atmospheric Haze is a shot card. The start and end frames, timed action, lighting and color specs, a camera parameter table, copy-ready still-image and video prompts and negatives are open to GrokCine Pro members on the web.
Related families
- Fog & Haze
Fog & HazeA combined atmosphere design uses a denser local veil and a lighter distance gradient; their spatial roles remain distinct. - Rain Effect
Rain EffectFalling droplets form moving streaks and interact with surfaces through splashes, wetting and reflection. - Smoke Effect
Smoke EffectA localized source produces coherent curling particulate flow, distinguished from a uniform weather veil.
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References
Sources we studied for this technique. External links; we don't embed them.
Articles & definitions
- Wikipedia: Aerial perspective
Wikipedia · Web
Contrast and saturation fall and colours shift toward the sky colour as distance grows.
Images & stills
- No Film School: haze vs fog vs steam
@nofilmschool · 2019-07-29 · X
Haze vs fog vs steam: haze is a fine, even veil; fog is denser and local; steam rises and vanishes.
- Haze needs backlight: machine at full plus big backlights
@funkybokeh · 2018-01-21 · X
Haze machine turned up full plus big backlights: haze only shows when it is backlit.
- Friedrich's Wanderer vs Dunkirk: far layers in pale air
@1907_mohamed_72 · 2020-03-20 · X
Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog vs Dunkirk (Hoytema): far layers dissolve into pale air while the near figure stays dark and crisp.
- Tested: eight haze machines compared
@RGRSPFX · 2019-04-25 · X
Tested 8 haze machines: haze density/particle type visibly changes contrast and the look of beams.
- Fresnel plus haze: making the beam visible
@tonicumpli · 2020-05-28 · X
Fresnel + haze machine: the beam becomes visible in the air (theatre spotlight look).