Light Ray Horizon

Film · Minimal · Light Rays

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Rays across the horizon·Nano Banana Pro
Widescreen frame·Seedream 4.5
Standard ratio·Seedream 4.5
Square crop·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

A near abstract cinematic frame: one intense point of light sitting on a flat empty horizon, throwing long straight rays outward across the entire image and catching haze in the air. No subject, almost no detail, just the geometry of the light, a faint ground plane and a smoothly graded sky. Limited to one warm hue burning into darkness, subtle grain, deeply atmospheric.

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

  • 1No subject at all. Adding a figure turns it into a poster.
  • 2Straight rays, not a glow. Ask for the geometry.
  • 3One hue. Two colours make it a sunset.

Things to try

Cool

a blue source instead

Two points

a second light further off

Water

the rays reflected below

Silhouette

one tiny figure on the plane

Overhead

the source high in the frame

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