Film Noir Photography

Photography · Noir · Black And White

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Film Noir Photography, One hard light, venetian blind shadows and a lot of black — Office interior, blind shadows·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.

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

Prompt

A black and white film noir photograph. A figure in a hat stands in a small office lit by a single hard key light from a window on the right, venetian blind shadows falling across the back wall and across the figure. No fill light, shadows falling to true black, a thin plume of cigarette smoke catching the beam. Low camera angle, tight framing, 35mm black and white film grain, deep contrast.

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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

1No fill light is the most important phrase. Models add fill unless told not to.
2Put a shape in the light path. Blinds, railings, a fan, a doorway.
3Smoke gives the beam something to land on and reads as period instantly.