Retroreflect: a reflective-clothing flash AI photoshoot
Retroreflect is a night-street shoot where a direct flash makes retroreflective clothing blaze pure white while the street behind drops to black. You get six frames of a glowing silhouette, with skin lit naturally and the face kept clear.
- Lens
- 28 mm
- Aperture
- f/5.6
- Shutter
- 1/60 s
- ISO
- 1600
- Light
- Direct on-camera flash
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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 · Retroreflect 
Frame 2 · Retroreflect 
Frame 3 · Retroreflect 
Frame 4 · Retroreflect 
Frame 5 · Retroreflect 
Detail · Retroreflect
About the retroreflective flash look
Light comes from one bare flash on the camera, fired straight ahead. Retroreflective fabric bounces that light right back into the lens, so the coat burns white with a fine glass-bead sparkle, while skin and ordinary surfaces get a normal flash exposure. A 28 mm lens at f/5.6, 1/60 s and ISO 1600 lets distant warm street lights register as faint points. Working distance stays at two to four meters.
Clothes, place and when to pick it
Everything reflective is cut as real clothing: a long gray trench with a deep hood worn down, wide trousers, matte black boots, black leather gloves and sport glasses with flaring rims. Under an overpass the silhouette glows against pure dark. haloshot slots your own face in from three phone photos. Reach for this one for a music single, a night-themed grid or a streetwear lookbook.
How it works
Add three photos of yourself: face, half turn and full length. haloshot renders a free five-frame preview of Retroreflect with your face. Pick the frames you like and keep them in 4:5 HD.
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