Language of the Lens
Location: /studio/[project]/lens
A lens-technique reference distilled from Mercado's 'The Language of the Lens' into an ontology. Cards are grouped into six intent categories (space, movement, focus, flares, distortion, intangibles), each showing lens, focal length, focus and movement specs plus a ready-to-paste English prompt phrase and film examples. Typing a query ranks matching techniques by intent score, and example images can be generated per card without an API key.
- 1Type a directing intent or mood into the search box to filter techniques ranked by score.
- 2Narrow the scope with category chips (space, movement, focus, flares, distortion, intangibles, or all).
- 3Read each card's lens specs, summary, and film examples.
- 4Click Copy to put the English phrase on the clipboard, or Insert (when opened beside a prompt box) to drop it into the current prompt.
- 5If a card has no example image, generate one via its Generate button or Generate All at the top.
Example image generation: god-tibo-imagen (/api/owntent/imagen, local Codex auth, no API key). Recommendations use a local scoring algorithm, no model.
Card phrases are English prompt fragments meant to be pasted verbatim into generation prompts; keep them untranslated. Even without a key, 12 flagship techniques preview via bundled schematic SVGs and example images.