Golden Hour SREF Style Guide for Midjourney
Golden Hour SREF code
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How to Use This Golden Hour SREF Code
Step 1: Find Your Style
Browse our extensive styles list and find the perfect style reference for your project.
Step 2: Copy the Code
Click the "Copy" button to get the SREF code. It's as simple as --sref XXXXX.
Step 3: Create Your Prompt
Combine your prompt with the SREF code. Don't forget the aspect ratio! e.g., --ar 16:9
What is Golden Hour SREF style
This style captures the soft, warm, and diffused lighting found just before sunset or after sunrise, characterized by rich amber and gold tones. In **Midjourney**, mastering the **Golden Hour** **style** requires specific **prompt** engineering focusing on lens quality, film grain, and ambient warmth to evoke a nostalgic, cinematic feeling across portraits, landscapes, and interior scenes. This aesthetic balances dramatic lighting with soft shadows, creating an ethereal and peaceful mood.
Golden Hour Prompt Ideas
- A young woman with delicate glasses standing near a seaside boardwalk during golden hour, soft atmospheric light, bokeh background, cinematic portrait photography
- Vast rolling dry hills under a dramatic sky at sunset, hyperdetailed texture of tall golden grass, epic landscape composition, film photography
- Cozy indoor scene looking out a window in a small cafe, a potted citrus tree on a wooden table, soft spherical lanterns glowing warmly, deep amber tones, highly detailed realism
- A lone figure hiking a dusty path through arid mountains bathed in intense backlighting, heavy lens flare and soft focus, evocative atmosphere