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Solargraph style reference and prompts

Explore the “Solargraph” reference with scratch-like marks and faint reflections on a wet road. View the images, copy the style or example prompt, and discover related styles on Looksift.

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Solargraph style reference and prompts — Qwen Image 2.1Qwen Image 2.1
Solargraph style reference and prompts — GPT Image 2.5GPT Image 2.5

Reference details

Reference ID
4296
Category
Photography

Reference prompts

Style prompt

Create a weathered pinhole solargraph look in which accumulated time appears as many fine, parallel luminous arcs crossing a darkened sky. Let the arcs fan from a high edge toward a low warm point, varying slightly in spacing, intensity, and hue. Use deep cyan-blue and teal atmospheric stains, creamy gold streaks, and a small peach-orange glow near the horizon. Render lower forms as simple silhouettes and subdued reflections so they anchor the immense sky without competing. Include faint scratches, dust, uneven exposure, and soft chemical discoloration integrated into the image. The composition should feel patient, strange, and photographic, with temporal repetition forming its main geometry.

Full example prompt

A square experimental photograph records an empty country road at dusk beneath an immense fan of thin luminous arcs. The road begins in the dark lower foreground and bends gently toward a low bright horizon near the right edge. Small rooftops and indistinct rural structures line the left horizon, while a single large tree stands as a dark silhouette on the right. Above them, dozens of closely spaced pale streaks sweep diagonally from the upper left down to the warm horizon, like successive paths of the sun compressed into one view. The streaks vary subtly in brightness and color, shifting between ivory, pale gold, mint, and cyan. Their converging lower ends glow peach-orange at the horizon. The upper sky is a deep, uneven blue-green, softly mottled and veiled with chemical haze rather than a crisp night sky. Along the road, faint wet reflections and a low orange light trail add a horizontal counterline. Details in the land are partly lost in long exposure and low light; the tree and rooftops are stronger as silhouettes than as objects to inspect. The photograph includes small scratches, dust specks, edge discoloration, and other weathered marks consistent with a pinhole solargraph. The luminous arcs, not a conventional sunset disc, dominate the composition. No people, labels, or typography appear. The mood is patient and uncanny: an ordinary road remains almost still while accumulated time draws a radiant geometric pattern across the sky.