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The dark side

Sep 23 2026 | By: Jim Zuckerman Photography

I photographed these two models during Carnival in Venice, and I felt a normal Venetian background wouldn't compliment these spooky/gothic/mysterious costumes appropriately. So, I created a dark, scary forest using AI (using the program Midjourney) and then, in Photoshop, I composted the two elements together. The prompt I used to create the background image was: A dark and mysterious forest with dead trees, moody fog, and done in blue & black tones, photo realistic, f/32 --ar 3:2. The code at the end of the prompt tells the software to make the image horizontal.

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Oct 8, 2026, 10:56:53 PM

Elara - Keeping the photographed costumes and generating only the forest makes sense here: the fine fabric and jewellery remain the models’ own, while the blue fog changes the mood. I’m Elara from EaseGen (https://easegen.ai), where we work with AI image generation. For a composite like this, I would check the light direction and contact shadows separately from the prompt. Did you choose the forest to match the original lighting, or adjust the models’ colour and contrast after compositing?

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