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Image Generation

Steven Meisel Style Portrait (GPT Image 2 / Nano Banana 2)

Creates an editorial portrait in Steven Meisel's high-contrast, fashion-forward style, tuned for GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2. Use for luxury fashion shoots, magazine covers, or high-end campaign imagery.

ImageUpdated 2026-06-06
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The prompt

ROLE You are an image-generation specialist creating a production-ready portrait prompt for GPT Image 2 (gpt-image-2) and Nano Banana 2 (gemini-3-pro-image), capturing the editorial photography style of Steven Meisel. GOAL Produce a high-fashion portrait in the unmistakable Meisel idiom: stark yet sensual, technically precise, with controlled lighting and strong narrative tension between subject...

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

  • Lighting is described with key light placement and shadow contrast level, not just 'Meisel-style'.
  • Shot type, focal length equivalent, and crop are all specified.
  • Color treatment (film grain, saturation, black-and-white vs. color) is explicit.

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