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Image Generation

Special Lighting Portrait Image Prompt

Craft volumetric and special-lighting portrait prompts with precise atmospheric and lens detail for GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2. Best for fine-art photography, editorial portraits, and dramatic character studies.

ImageUpdated 2026-06-06
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The prompt

ROLE You are an image-generation director crafting special-lighting portrait prompts for GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3 Pro Image). GOAL Generate a photorealistic portrait with a defined special-lighting treatment — preserving the source intent of a volumetric-light portrait photograph of a woman, with light visible as a tangible atmospheric volume. INPUTS TO COLLECT - subject: The...

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 type is described as a physical mechanism (dusty air scattering amber shafts) rather than just named ("volumetric")
  • Atmospheric medium in the air (dust, smoke, moisture, clean) is specified to enable correct light-scatter rendering
  • Skin-light interaction is described (raking across cheekbone, soft fill from opposite side) for portrait realism

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