Contemplative still
The held gaze, the quiet room, the face that does not need to perform.
This register is for when you want the image to *wait* with you, not to cheer for you. You are not asking the camera to fix you, angle you, or make you more interesting. You are asking to be met where you are — a little more visible than in daily life, but with the same gravity.
References here lean on the held screen-test tradition, a direct but composed gaze, and a sacred-register portrait mood. You do not have to be motionless, but the energy is *low pulse*: nothing that reads like a performance for an audience. Tell your photographer if you want a moment to settle before each frame.
Use the main Prepare browse (light, pose, tone, style) to collect what you like; use this page to *name* the stillness you want, so the session and the post-processing can align.
Vocabulary: artist methods
Short descriptions of the treatments Vela can discuss with your photographer. Warhol method pages on the magazine open in a new reading tab; other families link here as the magazine hubs expand.
Screen Test
Read on the magazine: context & reinterpretation →
Warhol Screen Test register: BlazeFace bbox, tight head-to-shoulders crop, near-B&W with warm 16mm stock tint, subtle radial edge blur, light monochrome grain. Static surrogate for the 16mm portraits.
Self Portrait Gaze
Magazine method pages for this artist are rolling out. Your photographer can help you name this look in session and in the style catalog below.
Schiele-style held gaze: eye-centered (not face-centered) tight head crop, warm-earth desaturated grade with soft paper highlight shoulder.
Symbolist Icon
Magazine method pages for this artist are rolling out. Your photographer can help you name this look in session and in the style catalog below.
Procedural symbolist attributes (six vocabulary glyphs) composited over upstream Klimt LoRA output using BlazeFace placement — second pass, not LoRA-rendered objects.
Gold Ground Portrait
Magazine method pages for this artist are rolling out. Your photographer can help you name this look in session and in the style catalog below.
Klimt gold-period portrait: vision caption of the source, then FLUX + gold-ground LoRA — flat Byzantine gold leaf, ornament-integrated dress and field, Vienna Secession register.
Byzantine Halo
Magazine method pages for this artist are rolling out. Your photographer can help you name this look in session and in the style catalog below.
Klimt Byzantine halo: BlazeFace bbox (shared Modal) → procedural gold disc / rings / mosaic-texture halo behind the head; optional gold fill in transparent background (rembg chains).
Try the style in Transformation Studio
When you work with a Vela partner, these are the client-facing “looks” the pipeline is built to deliver. Your photographer can match one of these to what you want from this register. Prices and examples are for partner surfaces.