Lighting plays a crucial role in photography and has a significant impact on the overall quality of the image and the mood of a picture. You can use lighting to emphasize the subject, create depth and dimension, convey emotion and highlight important details.
Image 1: AI generated image of a photo studio in orange light
I will subsequently list up some keywords which can be found in different references to control the lighting.
In my current working local installation it is hard to find out, how good all these keywords work. But one can show, that one word in a Prompt change the behaviour of the image a little bit. It can be called change of emotional impression of a photograph.
I did not check the keywords on Midjourney and Dall-E. But I think they will work there as described in the references. In Stable Diffusion, at least in my installation, the effect has to be tested on a case-by-case basis.
First set of keywords:
Continuous Lighting
Cozy Indoor Lighting
Cozy Outdoor Lighting
Back Lighting
Bisexual Lighting
Broad Lighting
Butterfly Lighting
Chiaroscuro Lighting
Cinematic Lighting
Diffused Lighting
Dramatic Lighting
Flat Lighting
Front Lighting
Hard Lighting
High Contrast Lighting
High Key Lighting
Indirect Lighting
Indoor Photography Lighting
Loop Lighting
Low Key Lighting
Motivated Lighting
Natural Lighting
Neon Lighting
Noir Lighting
Outdoor Photography Lighting
Rembrandt Lighting
Rim Lighting
Side Lighting
Shimmering Lighting
Short Lighting
Soft Lighting
Specular Lighting
Split Lighting
Studio Lighting
Three Point Lighting
Volumetric Lighting
Warm Lighting
Backlighting
Second set of keywords:
Ambient Light
Backlight
Back Light
Bounce Light
Broad Light
Butterfly Light
Flat Light
Hard Light
Loop Light
Natural Light
Practical Light
Rim Light
Ring Light
Short Light
Soft Light
Speedlight
Split Light
Striplight
Strip Light
Strobe Light
Additional set of keywords:
Sunlight
Daylight
Dimly Lit
Crepuscular Rays
Further set of keywords to control lighting:
Bioluminescence
Bioluminescent details
Bright
Bloom
Blue moon light effect
Caustics
Chiaroscuro
Clean background
Flashgun
Global illumination
Glowing
God rays
Halo
Hard shadows
Iridescent
Luminescence
Ektachrome
Radiant light rays
Rays of shimmering light
Sun lens light effect
Soft lights
Soft illumination
Subsurface scattering
Tindar light effect
Translucency
It can be shown that the above keywords work for academic examples. I will show this in another post. For my real world examples, setting the keywords in this way failed most of the time.
And the following should change the image temperature
Golden Hour
Blue Hour
Terms like the last ones were modifying the color of my image but did not effect the mood of the image.
The following 5 example show, that the keywords for lighting change the image a bit, but the lighting itself is not affected. I thing in further versions of Stable Diffusion this will work better than now.
I tested the keywords from above with no good result. So I modified the one I used up to now to study the effect of the wording.
This is my main problem at the moment when I have the idea to produce a special result. Each word changes everything sometimes surprisingly.
Example 1
medium shot, photograph of a friendly looking beautiful sexy Japanese woman, wearing black chiffon jacket bustier slip, Background Japanese garden, sharp focus, photo realistic, ultra detailed, studio lighting, friendly colors, colorful, 8K
Example 2
medium shot, photograph of a friendly looking beautiful sexy Japanese woman, wearing black chiffon jacket bustier slip, Background Japanese garden, sharp focus, photo realistic, ultra detailed, outdoor lighting, friendly colors, colorful, 8K
Example 3
medium shot, photograph of a friendly looking beautiful sexy Japanese woman, wearing black chiffon jacket bustier slip, Background Japanese garden, sharp focus, photo realistic, ultra detailed, adorable lighting, friendly colors, colorful, 8K
Example 4
medium shot, photograph of a friendly looking beautiful sexy Japanese woman, wearing black chiffon jacket bustier slip, Background Japanese garden, sharp focus, photo realistic, ultra detailed, magic lighting, friendly colors, colorful, 8K
Example 5
medium shot, photograph of a friendly looking beautiful sexy Japanese woman, wearing black chiffon jacket bustier slip, Background Japanese garden, sharp focus, photo realistic, ultra detailed, indirect lighting, friendly colors, colorful, 8K
I tested a lot of other expressions. The result was a slightly different image like the one above.
Keep my results in mind I will check if this behaviour will change in the future.
Have a nice day! See you soon back!