Additive: a colored shadows AI photoshoot
Additive makes a white studio wall into a lesson in light: red, green and blue flashes mix to near-white on the body and split the shadow into cyan, magenta and yellow. You get five frames and a detail where the shadows act as a second character.
- Lens
- 35 mm
- Aperture
- f/8
- Shutter
- 1/200 s
- Light
- Three flashes, red/green/blue
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Six frames from this shoot
Five frames and one detail, made by haloshot from three phone photos of one person.
Frame 1 · Additive 
Frame 2 · Additive 
Frame 3 · Additive 
Frame 4 · Additive 
Frame 5 · Additive 
Detail · Additive
About the rgb shadows look
Three bare flashes with saturated gels stand well apart, red on the left, green in front and blue on the right. Where they overlap on skin the light reads neutral, and the edges of the face and suit pick up pure color fringes. Each blocked light leaves its own crisp shadow on the wall. A 35 mm lens at f/8 and 1/200 s keeps every outline sharp.
Clothes, place and when to pick it
Light clothes work as a screen: a boxy pale silver-gray suit, a white T-shirt, chunky white sneakers and clear white-framed glasses. Your face gets a red edge on one cheek and a blue edge on the other. It fits a playful profile picture, a design studio team page or a music release that needs a clean, graphic cover.
How it works
Add three photos of yourself: face, half turn and full length. haloshot renders a free five-frame preview of Additive with your face. Pick the frames you like and keep them in 4:5 HD.
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