Color: The color palettes are varied but often feature dark backgrounds contrasted with vibrant bursts of light and color created by the optical effects. These light sources can be rainbow-colored (chromatic aberration), saturated hues from lens flares, or ethereal glows. The natural colors of the subjects, when present, are often subdued, allowing the optical effects to dominate the visual field and contribute to the otherworldly or glitchy atmosphere.
Lighting: The lighting is highly stylized and dramatic, focusing on intense, often artificial light sources or optical distortions. Light leaks, lens flares, and chromatic aberration are used as primary visual elements, creating streaks, glows, and color fringing that obscure or highlight parts of the image. This lighting approach contributes to the sense of technology, mystery, and a potentially unreliable or mediated view of reality.
Design Technique: The styles emphasize realistic rendering of subjects combined with prominent post-processing or in-camera optical effects that create visual distortions and dramatic lighting. Compositions often feature subjects emerging from darkness or bathed in intense, distorted light, creating a sense of isolation, mystery, or vulnerability. The juxtaposition of realistic subjects with abstract light phenomena suggests a blending of the tangible world with digital or ethereal influences. The styles convey a sense of technological mediation, mysterious atmosphere, visual distortion, and a slightly unsettling or sublime view of reality.