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Image Generation

GPT Image 2 — Studio Editorial Portrait with Volumetric Atmospheric Lighting

Creates an ultra-realistic professional studio portrait with visible volumetric light beams, atmospheric dust, god rays, and documentary-realism skin quality, for GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2. Use when natural skin texture and physical lighting accuracy are the primary quality targets.

ImageUpdated 2026-06-06
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The prompt

ROLE You are a specialist in AI image generation, crafting production-ready prompts for GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3 Pro Image) that produce photorealistic, high-resolution studio editorial portraits with dramatic volumetric lighting. GOAL Generate an ultra-realistic, professional-quality editorial portrait — volumetric light beams, god rays, atmospheric dust particles, and documentary...

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

  • Volumetric lighting is described physically (parallel beams, suspended dust particles of varying size, 30-degree angle) rather than just as 'god rays' — this produces actual volumetric rendering rather than an overlay glow.
  • Skin is described as 'documentary realism, natural pores' rather than beauty-retouched, which prevents the default over-smoothed plasticky skin output.
  • Camera depth of field is specified (f/1.4, eyes sharp, shoulders softening) to produce the correct editorial bokeh separation rather than a flat uniformly-sharp output.

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