Bounce Light
Make the image look more realistic.
It isn’t just an effect - it’s a great component of visual narrative credibility.
Add the token bounce light to prompt, and artificial images suddenly breathe realism, reflecting more natural behavior of light.
This inconspicuous modification turns a render into a photograph - each surface reacts, absorbs and reflects light, creating a mesh of subtle interactions that our brains instantly recognize as real.
A session (made in Midjourney) taken in a damp forest by the water photographed with such a prompt:
Intimate portrait of [subject] in forest clearing, face illuminated by bounce light reflecting off nearby stream, dappled sunlight through leaves, environmental portraiture, emotional resonance, natural color palette --chaos 5 --ar 4:5 --raw --v 7
Can you feel the high humidity?
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