reel-sunrise.jpg — provenance

WHY THIS FILE EXISTS

`clouds.jpg`, an earlier plate, cannot ship in the sellable pack for one
reason: nobody recorded which model made it. `make_pack.py` excludes it by
name. That is a whole asset lost to a missing line of text, so every plate
gets its line of text on the day it arrives.

`video/imagegen.py` writes this sidecar automatically for anything it
generates. This one was made outside that path, so it is written by hand and
carries the same fields.

FIELDS

  file        reel-sunrise.jpg
  source      ChatGPT image generation (OpenAI)
  made by     Shahbaz
  made on     29 August 2026
  original    "ChatGPT Image Aug 29, 2026, 04_54_20 PM.png",
              1672 x 941, kept in ~/Videos/Voice project/images/
  converted   PNG -> JPEG q3 via ffmpeg, 2 September 2026. 1.61 MB -> 157 KB
  used by     the REELS format only (9:16). The 16:9 episodes keep
              clouds-sunrise.jpg; this does not replace it.

WHAT IT IS

Sunrise seen from above a cloud deck. Sun low and left at roughly 13% across,
a tall cumulus mass right of centre, warm orange below and cool blue-grey sky
above.

⚠ THE CROP IS THE WHOLE POINT, AND IT IS NOT CENTRED

The source is 16:9 and a reel is 9:16. Covering 1080x1920 scales the image to
3412x1920, so the height fills EXACTLY and only 32% of the width survives —
there is no vertical freedom at all, and the horizontal slice is a decision.

**A centred crop loses the sun**, which is the only thing in the frame that
makes it a sunrise rather than fog. So the reel bed sets
`backgroundPosition: "18% center"`, which keeps the sun in the upper third and
puts the darker cloud mass underneath, where the text sits.

Re-crop if the image is ever replaced. Do not assume "center" is safe on a
landscape plate in a vertical frame.
