# Featured Image Prompt: Zuschläge berechnen

**Post:** zuschlage-berechnen-rechner  
**Category:** ratgeber

## Scene Type

**Desk / payroll documentation** — concrete workplace context for recording and calculating wage premiums (Sonntags-, Feiertags-, Nachtzuschläge). Distinct from prior prompt (abstract layers): aligns with style-guide preference for recognizable HR/payroll scenes over generic abstraction. Adjacent ratgeber posts vary; this uses **warm desk + time/work categorization** without clocks as hero object.

## Core Concept / Metaphor

Zuschläge = **separate pay categories for special hours** — documenting, splitting, and adding correct amounts on top of base pay. Visual story: someone has prepared to **track different kinds of work time** (weekend, holiday, night) on paper, without showing readable numbers or labels.

## Key Elements (On-Theme, Concrete)

- Open **ring binder** or hardcover notebook with **blank grid paper** only (empty cells, no printing, no handwriting)
- **Mechanical pencil** or neutral pen resting on the page
- **Three small stacks** of plain solid sticky notes or tabs in **warm yellow, muted red-terracotta, deep night blue** — suggest Sonntag / Feiertag / Nacht as color cues only, **no text on any note**
- **Warm desk lamp** (pooled light on the desk), natural **wood grain**, slightly lived-in edge of desk
- Optional: **ceramic mug** edge blurred — human scale, late or early shift without showing a clock face as focal point

## Why Not (Anti-Patterns)

- Abstract flowing layers, soft gradients, or “conceptual nodes” — **off-topic** for a calculation/payroll article and flagged as generic by `generate-blog-featured-image.py`
- Hero **wall clock**, **sundial**, or **blue sphere** — style-guide clichés
- **Calculator with buttons**, **spreadsheet on screen with legible UI** — text/UI risk
- Pristine sterile stock office with only a laptop

## Composition / Camera

**Three-quarter view from slightly above** (between eye level and bird’s eye): reader sees the binder grid and the three color stacks clearly; shallow depth of field so background falls off softly.

## Mood / Atmosphere

Focused, warm, trustworthy — **serious payroll work** without cold fintech abstraction.

## Prompt

CRITICAL: No text, letters, typography, signs, numbers, handwriting, or readable content anywhere. No labels on sticky notes; no printed lines with words; no screen UI; no calendar dates. The image must fill the entire frame edge to edge, 16:9, no letterboxing.

Editorial photography for a German HR blog about **Zuschläge** (wage premiums for Sunday, public holiday, and night work). **Scene:** A warm-lit wooden desk. An open ring binder with **completely blank grid paper** fills part of the frame; a slim metal mechanical pencil lies on the paper. Beside the binder, **three neat stacks** of plain rectangular sticky notes or index tabs — solid colors only: **warm yellow, muted terracotta red, deep navy blue** — with **no writing** on any piece. Soft pool of light from a **desk lamp** with warm temperature. Shallow depth of field; background softly blurred. Natural wood texture, subtle dust or wear for a **lived-in, film-like** feel — not sterile or overly perfect.

Style: Editorial photography, natural texture, soft film-like color grading, professional HR context. 16:9 landscape.

Avoid: blue sphere, sundial shape, generic round wall clock as main subject, floating pie chart, laptop as sole subject, abstract flowing shapes, layered abstract gradients, network nodes, vertical columns of blocks, pristine spotless glass desk, any readable text or icons.

## Negative Prompts (embed in Prompt)

Avoid: blue sphere, sundial, generic hero clock, laptop-only stock office, floating charts, abstract flowing layers, sticky notes with any marks, documents with printing, calculator keypad legible as text-like grid.