Roma Norte: a Mexico City AI photoshoot through papel picado
Roma Norte is a Mexico City photoshoot against painted walls in hard sun, framed through strings of papel picado. Cut-paper flags blur into color near the lens, their patterned shadows fall across the face, and the palette runs fuchsia, ochre and acid green.
- Lens
- 50 mm
- Aperture
- f/2.8
- Filter
- Paper flags at the lens
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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 · Roma Norte 
Frame 2 · Roma Norte 
Frame 3 · Roma Norte 
Frame 4 · Roma Norte 
Frame 5 · Roma Norte 
Detail · Roma Norte
About the foreground flags look
A 50 mm lens at f/2.8 sits right behind the hanging flags, so they melt into soft pink and yellow shapes around a sharp figure. Direct sun gives crisp, dark shadows on the walls. Where it passes through the paper, it prints lace-like patterns on skin and cloth. Saturation is pushed to a bright pastel, and the sky reads deep blue.
Clothes, place and when to pick it
The suit is loud by design: acid green with exaggerated shoulders and wide pleated trousers, a pink shirt and brown loafers. haloshot slots your face behind the paper cutouts. Use it for a bold profile picture, a colorful grid post or a personal site that needs energy.
How it works
Add three photos of yourself: face, half turn and full length. haloshot renders a free five-frame preview of Roma Norte with your face. Pick the frames you like and keep them in 4:5 HD.
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