Bald Eagle Dive-Fishes — A YAML-Structured Prompt

Veo 3.1Structured PromptAnimalsRealisticTelephoto8s
A prompt written entirely in YAML: 500mm telephoto, a 1/3200s freeze-frame, backlit water spray, even the sound-design field broken out on its own line. A clean demonstration of structured prompt engineering — Veo 3.1 eats this format right up.

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🎨 VEO 3.1 🎨 YAML Prompt : prompt: | A bald eagle folds its wings and dives toward a salmon-rich river; talons skim the water, droplets sparkling against emerald spruce reflections. 500 mm telephoto realism, 1/3200 s freeze, backlit spray. audio: wind rush + faint

✍️ Editor’s Notes

Written as YAML, tight and efficient. Photography jargon like “500 mm telephoto realism, 1/3200 s freeze” is stacked in like a pro — a classic move of trading jargon for realism, since those specific params are tied hard to real telephoto capture in the model's vocabulary, way more effective than just saying looks very realistic. Shame the audio field cuts off mid-sentence at “wind rush + faint” — clearly a truncated half-finished draft that needs completing.

Want tighter control? Try this expanded version:
prompt: | A bald eagle folds its wings and dives toward a salmon-rich river; talons skim the water, droplets sparkling against emerald spruce reflections. As it rises, a silver salmon thrashes in its grip, water sheeting off feathers in slow arcs. The eagle banks hard against a granite cliff backdrop, wingtips slicing cold mountain air. 500 mm telephoto realism, 1/3200 s freeze, backlit spray, shallow depth of field isolating the eagle against a soft-focus forest. audio: wind rush + faint river rapids, a single sharp screech at the moment of the catch, distant echo off the canyon walls. camera: handheld telephoto pan, tracking upward with the ascent, no cuts. duration: 8s
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