Desert Midcentury

Photography · Desert · Midcentury

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Car and house·Nano Banana Pro
Wide view·Seedream 4.5
Square crop·Seedream 4.5
Detail of the scrub·Seedream 4.5

Recipe

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Flux, so treat the settings as a starting point rather than the exact run.

A description in plain sentences. This is the version to start with, and it works on any current image model. Settings below are the ones we used on GPT Image; treat them as a starting point.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

Warm desert photography in the Palm Springs register: a butter yellow car, a low modernist house with a flat roof, palms against a pale washed sky and dry scrub in the foreground. Sun bleached colour with the yellows pushed, short hard midday shadows, calm centred framing with plenty of empty ground. Fine film grain, no people, no lettering.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Settings on GPT Image

Size
1536 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Midday light with short shadows. Golden hour makes it a postcard.
  • 2One saturated yellow object against bleached surroundings.
  • 3Leave empty ground in the foreground.

Things to try

A motel sign in the same treatment

different subject, same light

Dusk

the sky gone pink

Pink car

the accent colour changed

Closer

the car filling the frame

Empty

landscape with no car

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