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Blue Depth Look
Different depth layers become progressively bluer and more attenuated, making distance legible through cyan atmosphere.
Selected recipe
Blue Depth
This is the default recipe for the Blue Depth Attenuation Look 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: Apply depth-aware attenuation while retaining near detail and coherent parallax; do not give every surface the same blue value.
Blue Depth: Different depth layers become progressively bluer and more attenuated, making distance legible through cyan atmosphere. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- Reach for Blue Depth when you need this effect: Different depth layers become progressively bluer and more attenuated, making distance legible through cyan atmosphere.
- How it works
- Apply depth-aware attenuation while retaining near detail and coherent parallax; do not give every surface the same blue value.
- Common mistakes
- If the result does not follow this rule, it is not this technique: Apply depth-aware attenuation while retaining near detail and coherent parallax; do not give every surface the same blue value. Do not change multiple variables at once so the effect becomes unreadable.
How to read this page
Blue Depth Look is one technique in Viral Looks. 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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Recipe
8 seconds · single take
A 1950s drowned-valley drama: the reservoir diver pauses beside the three arches of his drowned village church, each farther from the camera, above the place where his family's house once stood.
Shot cards
The full recipe for Blue Depth is a shot card
The full recipe for Blue Depth 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.
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References
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Articles & definitions
- Wikipedia: Aerial perspective
Wikipedia · Web
Aerial perspective: distant objects lose contrast and shift toward the colour of the medium.
- Wikipedia: Underwater photography
Wikipedia · Web
Underwater, colour is absorbed with distance so far objects turn blue-green and soft.