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Watch: As the sun sinks toward the horizon, the sky turns from white to orange-gold and the person's shadow stretches longer and longer. That's the low warm light of the hour before sunset.A line-art demo that only illustrates the technique, not finished footage.

Video · Lighting

Golden Hour黄金时刻

Warm, low-angle light in the hour after sunrise or before sunset.

Category: Lighting
Group: Basics
Medium: Video
Library: 042 / 166

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Prompt templates are written from how generation models usually behave and have not yet been verified one by one with real generations. “Common pitfalls” are judgment from experience, not official limits.

When to use it

Lyrical character moments, landscape cutaways, leaving space at the end.

Prompt template

golden hour, low warm sunlight raking across the scene, long soft shadows, faint golden haze in the air.

Sample prompt · generate a video directly

The technique comes first, followed by the scene, action, performance and duration. Paste it straight into a video model and swap in your own characters and plot.

Golden hour, warm low-angle sunlight raking in, long soft shadows, a slight golden haze in the air. On a dirt road beside a wheat field, a father carries his daughter on his shoulders on the way home, their shadows stretched long. She points into the distance and shouts, “Dad, look at the sun!” 5 seconds, natural warm light, not a wash of orange.

Common pitfalls

So warm it oversaturates into orange-red, like a filter.
The sun angle is written as overhead light, losing the long raking shadows.

Parameter tips

Spell out the low angle and long shadows; the lower the sun the warmer, and the best window is usually under an hour.