Blade: a light-across-the-eyes AI photoshoot
One hand-wide band of hard light crosses the eyes in every frame of Blade, and everything outside it falls into black. The five portraits and the detail come out clean, grainless and very high in contrast.
- Lens
- 105 mm
- Aperture
- f/11
- Shutter
- 1/160 s
- ISO
- 100
- Light
- Single hard beam
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Six frames from this shoot
Five frames and one detail, made by haloshot from three phone photos of one person.
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Detail · Blade
About the slit light look
A single spotlight is shaped through a narrow horizontal slit, so the band has razor edges and no spill. There is no fill and no rim. Up to four fifths of each frame stays inky black. Mounted on a tripod at eye level or a little below, a 105 mm lens at f/11 holds everything sharp from the nose to the ears, with no grain at ISO 100.
Clothes, place and when to pick it
Wardrobe is sculptural black: a high-necked jacket with architectural shoulders and a funnel collar, black leather gloves and one wide polished silver cuff. Your face sits inside the band in every portrait. This is the pick for an album cover, a speaker bio or any page that needs a portrait with quiet authority.
How it works
Add three photos of yourself: face, half turn and full length. haloshot renders a free five-frame preview of Blade with your face. Pick the frames you like and keep them in 4:5 HD.
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