--- title: "58th Floor AI photo guide: which photos work | Tiny Desk AI" description: "Which photo to use for each 58th Floor AI seat: framing, light, what breaks the render, and how to cast two people so both faces survive the take." canonical_url: "https://tiny-desk-video.com/58th-floor-ai-photo-guide" locale: en meta: "og:description": "Which photo to use for each 58th Floor AI seat: framing, light, what breaks the render, and how to cast two people so both faces survive the take." "og:image": "https://tiny-desk-video.com/og.jpg" "og:image:alt": "58th Floor AI photo guide: which photos work — Tiny Desk AI" "og:image:height": "630" "og:image:width": "1200" "og:title": "58th Floor AI photo guide: which photos work" "twitter:description": "Which photo to use for each 58th Floor AI seat: framing, light, what breaks the render, and how to cast two people so both faces survive the take." "twitter:image": "https://tiny-desk-video.com/og.jpg" "twitter:image:alt": "58th Floor AI photo guide: which photos work — Tiny Desk AI" "twitter:title": "58th Floor AI photo guide: which photos work" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://tiny-desk-video.com/llms.txt) **Short answer** Use one clear half-body photo per seat: head and shoulders in frame, face square to the camera, even light from the front, no sunglasses. The clip is a medium shot of two people from the chest up, so a tight headshot crops badly and a full-body photo makes the faces too small to keep. One photo per person, never two people in one photo. [**Try it with two photos**](https://tiny-desk-video.com/#create) # 58th Floor AI photo guide Two seats, one medium shot, fifteen seconds — so the photo is doing more work than usual. Updated 2026-11-03 ## The short checklist - One person per photo. Two people in one frame fuse into one face. - Head and shoulders inside the frame, with a little room above the hair. - Face square to the lens, eyes visible, no sunglasses and no hat brim over the eyes. - Even light on the face — a window or a lamp in front of you, never behind. - A plain background is ideal, but the render drops it anyway; a busy room mostly costs sharpness. ## Per seat The left seat is the hook. It opens the clip and stays in frame the longest, so this is the photo to spend time on: sharper, brighter and more front-facing than the second one. The right seat is the verse. It enters later and turns half a step toward the microphone, so a straight-on photo with the chin slightly up keeps the face readable during the turn. ## What actually breaks | **Photo** | **What happens** | | --- | --- | | **Two people in one frame** | The model merges them into one face in one seat | | **Sunglasses** | Eyes are invented, and the face stops reading as the same person | | **A screenshot of a screenshot** | Soft edges and colour banding survive the render | | **Strong side light or backlight** | One half of the face goes dark and stays dark | | **Full-body shot** | The face lands too small in a chest-up frame | ## Casting two people Upload the taller person on the left if you are unsure: the left performer stands slightly forward in the reference, and a taller left figure matches the blocking better. Anything close works — the model rescales each person to the seat rather than keeping their real height difference. Both seats are independent. Adding a second photo never changes the price, and leaving one empty keeps the original performer instead of cropping the frame. More on portraits in general: [**photo requirements**](https://tiny-desk-video.com/tiny-desk-ai-photo-requirements). Ready to render: [**58th Floor AI**](https://tiny-desk-video.com/58th-floor-ai). ## Frequently asked questions **Make a video** ## Ready to hear your band? Credits first, then the photos. Pick one seat or all five — the price is the same. [**Create**](https://tiny-desk-video.com/#create) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://tiny-desk-video.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"58th Floor photo guide","item":"https://tiny-desk-video.com/58th-floor-ai-photo-guide"}]} ``` ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"58th Floor AI photo guide: which photos work","description":"Which photo to use for each 58th Floor AI seat: framing, light, what breaks the render, and how to cast two people so both faces survive the take.","url":"https://tiny-desk-video.com/58th-floor-ai-photo-guide","dateModified":"2026-11-03","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Tiny Desk AI","url":"https://tiny-desk-video.com"}} ``` ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Can I use a selfie for 58th Floor AI?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, if it is sharp, lit from the front and does not cut off the top of your head. A selfie at arm’s length is roughly the right framing for a chest-up medium shot."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"What if both photos are the same person?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"It still renders: two seats of the same face read as two takes on the same person. Most people use two different people."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Does a pet photo work in a seat?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, as long as the animal’s face is readable and facing the camera. A full-body photo of a small pet makes the face too small."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Do the photos need the same background?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"No. Both backgrounds are replaced by the teal wall, so only the faces and shoulders matter."}}]} ``` ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@id":"https://tiny-desk-video.com/#website","@type":"WebSite","description":"Tiny Desk AI puts 1–5 people into the 19-second Outstanding Tiny Desk performance: same music, same camera cuts, 9:16 vertical video.","inLanguage":"en-US","name":"Tiny Desk AI","url":"https://tiny-desk-video.com/","workTranslation":{"@id":"https://tiny-desk-video.com/es#website"}},{"@id":"https://tiny-desk-video.com/58th-floor-ai-photo-guide#webpage","@type":"WebPage","description":"Which photo to use for each 58th Floor AI seat: framing, light, what breaks the render, and how to cast two people so both faces survive the take.","name":"58th Floor AI photo guide: which photos work","url":"https://tiny-desk-video.com/58th-floor-ai-photo-guide","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://tiny-desk-video.com/#website"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://tiny-desk-video.com/58th-floor-ai-photo-guide"]}]}]} ``` ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](https://tiny-desk-video.com/sitemap.md) for all pages.