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A telephoto lens is a camera lens with a long focal length (typically 70mm to 600mm or more). Its main characteristic is bringing distant subjects visually closer while compressing perspective.

✨ Why It Matters in Your Prompts

When you say telephoto, you’re telling the model to:

Avoid wide-angle distortion (no exaggerated foreground, no fisheye).
Generate grand, layered imagery (background closer, subject more integrated).
Emphasize clarity and monumentality (everything feels heavy, historical, or cosmic).

🔑 Prompting Scheme Overview

We’ve been building prompts in two layers:

Positive Prompt → describes what we want, in rich cinematic terms.
Negative Prompt → filters out everything we don’t want (style mismatches, distortions, anachronisms, clutter).

Additionally, we make a Compact Version (one-liner positives + negatives) for quick use or for models that respond better to shorter inputs.

🧩 Positive Prompt Strategy

The positive prompt is structured in 4 steps:

Camera/Style Definition
- Start with framing, e.g. “telephoto shot, archival-style, astrophotograph, cinematic composition”.
- This sets the photographic language (lens type, focus style, mood).
Subject Definition
- Describe the main subject(s) clearly: “Roman soldier from behind,” “angel guiding silhouettes,” “Los Tercios with pikes.”
- This grounds the image in concrete, recognizable forms.
Scene/Environment
- Add the setting and context: “pyramids in the desert,” “burning Sodom and Gomorrah in the distance,” “icy glaciers in Greenland.”
- Use compressed perspective keywords to emphasize telephoto style.
Color/Atmosphere/Meaning
- Final layer adds emotional tone and color palette: “vivid sapphire blues and turquoise,” “golden light of destiny,” “biblical, reverent, monumental.”
- This creates impact and narrative significance.

🚫 Negative Prompt Strategy

The negative prompt works as a safeguard. It usually covers:

Technical flaws
- lowres, blurry, noise, artifacts, motion blur, fisheye, wide-angle distortion, shallow DOF.
Stylistic mismatches
- cartoon, anime, CGI, 3D render, sketch, surreal fantasy, neon glow, oversaturation, HDR glow.
Anachronisms/Intrusions
- cars, planes, modern weapons, tourists, skyscrapers, crowds, fantasy creatures.
- This ensures the scene stays consistent to its intended period or theme.
Generation artifacts
- tiling, repeating patterns, glitches, watermark, text, logos.

⚡ Compact Version Use

The compact prompts are distilled versions:

Positive compact → one descriptive sentence with key camera/subject/atmosphere words.
Negative compact → one short filter list with only the most disruptive issues.

These are useful when:

The model prefers brevity.
You want to chain prompts quickly for variations.
You need base templates for experimentation.

5. Scenes: Telephoto - v1.0