Extreme Closeup Cinematic

Film · Cinematic · Macro

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

This recipe describes a treatment rather than a thing. Put your own subject in and it is added to the end of the prompt.

Prompt

A cinematic film still shot at extreme macro distance so that a single feature fills the frame edge to edge. Focus falls off within millimetres, one warm practical light picks out a bright catchlight while everything else sits in near darkness. Skin texture and fine detail rendered sharply in the focal plane, deep shadow elsewhere, soft oval anamorphic highlights at the frame edges, subtle film grain, no visible background. Subject: an eye with the reflection of a doorway in it.

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.