Full Sun: a slide film AI photoshoot in a tropical garden

Waist-up, a woman with long blond hair between two giant banana leaves, head turned, leaf shadows striping her cream suit

Six saturated slide-film frames make up Full Sun, set in a tropical garden: deep greens, a polarized blue sky, crisp leaf shadows and one red silk scarf that never leaves the picture. Each portrait is framed through layers of banana leaves and palms on a 35 mm SLR.

Art direction: Alex But

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Camera: 35 mm SLR
Lens: 50 mm
Aperture: f/4
Shutter: 1/500 s
Film: ISO 100 color slide
Filter: Circular polarizer

Best for

Personal brand site
Instagram grid
Magazine-style feature

Six frames from this shoot

Five frames and one detail, made by haloshot from three phone photos of one person.

Frame 1 · Full Sun
Frame 2 · Full Sun
Frame 3 · Full Sun
Frame 4 · Full Sun
Frame 5 · Full Sun
Detail · Full Sun

About the slide film look

Clear early-afternoon sun hits from high and slightly to one side, hard and unfiltered. Leaf shadows stripe the clothes and the gravel, a bright edge catches the shoulders, and the face sits half in sun with detail kept in the shade. A circular polarizer cuts glare off the leaves and darkens the sky. The 50 mm at f/4 and 1/500 s freezes the scarf mid-flutter on fine ISO 100 slide film.

Clothes, place and when to pick it

For women, haloshot styles a cream wool-silk suit with a draped lapel and the red scarf tied at the wrist; for men, a cream camp-collar shirt and chocolate pleated trousers with the scarf knotted at the neck. Brown woven loafers finish both. Banana leaves, palms and red-flowering shrubs frame the set. It fits summer posts or a bright brand page with your own face.

How it works

Add three photos of yourself: face, half turn and full length. haloshot renders a free five-frame preview of Full Sun with your face. Pick the frames you like and keep them in 4:5 HD.

Without AI

How to shoot slide film portraits in hard sun

Slide film saturates hard and has little latitude, so meter for sunlit skin and let shadows go dense. A circular polarizer deepens the sky and cuts leaf glare.

Work a botanical garden's tropical beds in early afternoon, sun high and to one side; ask about permits.
Load Ektachrome E100 in an SLR with a 50 mm; the polarizer eats 1.5 to 2 stops, so f/4 at 1/500 s lands right.
Frame through leaves half a meter from the lens, the subject 2 to 3 m away, the red accent always in frame.
Turn the polarizer until the sky between palms goes deep blue and leaf shine drops.

Bracket a third of a stop each way on key frames.

Set notes by Alex But, art director · Updated 12 October 2026