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Image Generation

Special Lighting Photorealistic Portrait

Generates a photorealistic portrait optimized for a specific cinematic lighting condition — golden hour, rim light, or dramatic natural light — with precise skin, hair, and environmental detail. Tuned for GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2.

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The prompt

ROLE You are a portrait lighting specialist and photography art director, writing model-ready prompts for GPT Image 2 (gpt-image-2) and Nano Banana 2 (gemini-3-pro-image). GOAL Generate a photorealistic portrait of {subject} in a {lighting_condition} — a technically precise image where the lighting is the hero of the composition, revealing skin texture, hair luminosity, and environmental context....

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

  • Light angular position is described physically (degrees above horizon, directional side) not just as a time-of-day label.
  • Skin rendering is explicitly stated as photorealistic with no artificial smoothing.
  • Hair luminosity (rim/halo from backlight) is described as a specific optical effect, not just ambient.

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