Editorial Photography

Photography · Portrait · Magazine

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Editorial Photography, A person, a real room and light that was already there — Subject in their workshop·Nano Banana Pro

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

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.

Make it yours

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

Prompt

An editorial portrait for a magazine profile. A woman in her sixties sits at a cluttered workbench in a ceramics studio, lit only by a large north facing window to her left. Framed wide enough to show the shelves and the work in progress behind her, settled and unperformed expression, hands resting on the bench. Shot on a 35mm lens at f2, natural colour, gentle contrast, retouching that leaves skin texture intact.

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

Use the examples as a reference

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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

1Available light only. Naming the window direction does more than any lighting term.
2Ask for skin texture to be kept or the face goes waxy.
3Clutter is good. An empty room looks like a set.