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The Jellyfish Only Works Because the Fog Hides the Rest
One jellyfish stays sharp in the foreground, everything else dissolves into fog — that's the whole depth-of-field trick.
✍️ Keep the depth of field shallow and that one foreground jellyfish holds the frame while everything else gets handed to the fog — the same principle as giving a homepage exactly one focal point: make one thing clear and let the rest blur without losing the read. Locking the palette to five hex values keeps the color from scattering into mush.
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Compose strictly within a 9:16 vertical crop, letting the tallest jellyfish tendrils run off the top and bottom edges to push a sense of height and immersion. Through this frame, translucent jellyfish drift down a deep, mist-filled ocean column with calm, meditative motion and a serene mood. Keep every surface clean and free of lettering; only faint micro-patterns, delicate lines and speckles, mark the bell skins. Soft, enveloping illumination sculpts each bell with a gentle rim glow and inner luminescence, cycling through cool blue, teal, violet, and warm pink that echo #0B3D91, #052A3A, #64D2FF, #9B59FF, and #FF9AD1. A shallow-to-moderate depth of field isolates one crisp foreground jellyfish while the rest recede through veil-like mist, building layered depth. Render the bells glassy and gelatinous, the tentacles silk-like, with a faint particulate haze suspended in the water. A single drifting sea plant and a small cluster of bioluminescent plankton serve as quiet story cues that hint at scale and quiet life. Treat the whole scene as a digital illustration, painterly with slightly soft edges and controlled detail, for a contemplative, otherworldly mood.
