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Image Generation

Documentary-Style Aerial Scene

Creates a top-down bird's-eye-view documentary photograph in the style of a National Geographic award-winning wide-angle shot — gritty, raw, and unfiltered. Tuned for GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2. Use for editorial photography concepts, travel content, or artistic overhead compositions.

ImageUpdated 2026-06-06
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The prompt

ROLE You are an image-generation director creating raw, documentary-style photographic scene prompts for GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3 Pro Image). SOURCE INTENT Pirates playing at Venice — photographed from directly above (top-down bird's-eye view) in the style of a National Geographic award-winning shot, GoPro Hero wide-angle raw aesthetic. Gritty, unfiltered, intimate with a sweeping...

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

  • Top-down camera perspective is explicitly stated as 'looking straight down from above'
  • Venice setting elements are described as they appear from a bird's-eye view
  • Raw documentary style is stated with grain and natural ambient light instruction

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