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Woodworking with curling shavings
This prompt describes an extreme close-up of a carpenter's hand pushing a plane, long shavings spiralling out and sawdust drifting in warm workshop light, with the scrape of the blade.
A carpenter's hand pushing a hand plane along a piece of [OAK / TEAK] wood, long curling shavings spiralling out, sawdust drifting in warm workshop light, tools hung on the wall, extreme close-up, slow motion, the smooth scrape of the blade.
Use a low angle along the plane to show shavings curling in slow motion.
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An extreme close-up slow-motion clip of a carpenter’s hand plane gliding along wood, with long shavings spiralling out, dust floating in warm light and tools on the wall behind.
Long curling shavings are the satisfying part of hand planing, so the prompt shows them spiralling in slow motion. A low angle along the plane, as the tip says, catches the curl. Warm light and sawdust add the workshop feel.
The shavings are short and flat.
Fix: Ask for “one long unbroken ribbon curling upwards”, as the tip suggests, and a low angle along the plane.
- The hand looks wrong. Keep the shot tight on the tool and the wood, with the hand partly out of frame to avoid finger problems.
- Wood species do not look right. Name one wood and its colour, such as warm golden teak, and keep the lighting warm to bring out the grain.
Ask for a close-up of sandpaper smoothing a tabletop, with fine dust rising in a beam of window light.
the clear scraping sound of the plane, long curls of wood spiralling off the blade
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