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Lighthouse in a Storm

Stable Diffusion
By Varun Sharma Tested with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Lighthouse in a Storm is a tested Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 prompt for wall art work. It runs at Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 · Aspect ratio 16:9 · Steps 30 · CFG scale 6 · Sampler DPM++ 2M Karras, and ships below with the exact prompt text, usage notes, and 2 pasteable variations.

Last tested: July 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more cinematic prompts .

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Lone lighthouse on a cliff in a night storm with crashing waves, lightning, and a warm beam in rain
Lighthouse in a Storm — Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0, Aspect ratio 16:9

Prompt 

A lone lighthouse on a rocky cliff during a violent night storm, huge waves exploding against the rocks below, sea spray in the air, a single fork of lightning splitting a bruised purple-black sky, the lighthouse beam cutting through sheets of rain, cold moody palette with one warm glow at the lantern room, cinematic seascape, dramatic atmosphere, wide establishing shot, highly detailed

Negative prompt 

text, watermark, cartoon, anime, oversaturated, flat lighting, low contrast, blurry, jpeg artifacts, people, boats

Settings

Model
Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
Aspect ratio
16:9
Steps
30
CFG scale
6
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras

How to use this prompt

The one move that makes this frame work is the single warm light — 'one warm glow at the lantern room' against an otherwise cold blue-black palette. Drop it and the storm reads as a flat monochrome wall; keep it and the eye lands exactly where you want it. Ask for 'a single fork of lightning', not just 'lightning', or SDXL floods the whole sky and blows out your contrast. Keep 'anime' and 'oversaturated' in the negative — this scene tips into garish video-game storm fast. For wall art, render at 16:9 and upscale; the crashing-wave spray needs resolution to stay convincing rather than smearing into gray fog.

Variations to try

  • Golden-hour calm version — the same lighthouse and cliff at sunset over a glassy sea, warm pastel sky and gulls, serene instead of dramatic
  • Dawn mist version — swap the storm for cold morning fog rolling off the water, the beam faint in pale light, muted and quiet
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON 
{
  "title": "Lighthouse in a Storm",
  "prompt": "A lone lighthouse on a rocky cliff during a violent night storm, huge waves exploding against the rocks below, sea spray in the air, a single fork of lightning splitting a bruised purple-black sky, the lighthouse beam cutting through sheets of rain, cold moody palette with one warm glow at the lantern room, cinematic seascape, dramatic atmosphere, wide establishing shot, highly detailed",
  "negative_prompt": "text, watermark, cartoon, anime, oversaturated, flat lighting, low contrast, blurry, jpeg artifacts, people, boats",
  "model": "Stable Diffusion",
  "model_version": "SDXL 1.0",
  "settings": {
    "aspect_ratio": "16:9",
    "steps": 30,
    "cfg": 6,
    "sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
  },
  "style_tags": [
    "cinematic",
    "moody"
  ],
  "use_case_tags": [
    "wall-art",
    "wallpaper"
  ],
  "source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/moody-lighthouse-storm/"
}

The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.