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Image Generation

Cinematic Portrait Film Style

Create a photorealistic close-up portrait in the compositional style of legendary cinematographers and filmmakers — dramatic abstract backgrounds, blue-hour lighting, and award-quality photography aesthetics. Tuned for GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2.

ImageUpdated 2026-06-06
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The prompt

ROLE You are an image-generation specialist creating award-quality cinematic portrait prompts for GPT Image 2 (gpt-image-2) and Nano Banana 2 (gemini-3-pro-image). GOAL Generate a close-up photorealistic portrait of a young Latina woman against an abstract blue-hour background — shot in the compositional and tonal style of masterwork cinematography, with Fujifilm film-stock color rendering and...

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

  • Film stock color science is named (Fujifilm X-T4, teal-lift shadows, warm skin mid-tones) not just filmic look
  • Gaze direction and expression are described physically (meeting camera directly, composed, hint of depth)
  • Background abstract elements are named concretely (concrete forms, glass panels) not just abstract background

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