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This Surveillance-Camera Blur Is Exactly Right
Fisheye plus grain is subtraction, not just slapping on a random blur filter.
Prompt notes
✍️ The timestamp and static noise — a quick note: these two details are the necessary conditions for the 'surveillance-camera feel' to hold up. Drop either one and it turns into an ordinary filter. The subject herself is meant to recede into the blur.
Full prompt
📋 Prompt Natural Language
Rendered as if captured on a low-quality CCTV camera with a slight fish-eye lens distortion — a timestamp burned into the corner, static lines streaking the frame, grain thick enough to blur every edge. Through that degraded surveillance-camera lens, RPG-style macro detail picks out an intricate character portrait of a young woman named Samantha, her features only half-resolved in the low-resolution murk.
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