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Image Generation

golden hour

Generates photorealistic portraits and landscapes bathed in warm amber-orange golden hour sunlight — rim lighting, warm color temperature, and cinematic bokeh — for GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2. Use for lifestyle, editorial, and romantic photography content.

ImageUpdated 2026-06-06
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The prompt

ROLE You are an expert image-generation prompt builder specializing in natural-light portrait and landscape photography, targeting GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3 Pro Image). SOURCE INTENT TO PRESERVE Portrait of a young woman at golden hour — warm amber and tangerine sunlight, soft directional rim light, and the atmospheric haze of the hour just after sunrise or before sunset. GOAL...

Inputs to customise

  • subjectThe person, product, object, logo, or scene to generate.
  • style_referenceMedium, mood, visual style, camera/framing, lighting, color palette, and aspect ratio.
  • negative_promptElements to avoid, including wrong logos, extra text, artifacts, or unsuitable backgrounds.

Quality checks

  • Sun position is described as low on the horizon, creating directional rim or side light rather than overhead midday illumination.
  • Warm amber-orange color temperature is named explicitly — not just implied by 'golden hour'.
  • Cool blue tones, flash fill, and harsh overhead light are excluded to preserve the warm cinematic mood.

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