Mirror Reflection Still

Film · Reflection · Mirror

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Face inside the mirror·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 cinematic still where the subject appears only as a reflection: a face sitting inside the small bright oval of a car wing mirror, while the entire rest of the frame is a soft dark out of focus blur of interior and daylight. Only the mirror is sharp, its edge framing the picture, the light inside it warm and slightly overexposed. Anamorphic feel, fine grain, no lettering.

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

  • 1Only the mirror in focus. Say the rest is a blur or it renders the car.
  • 2Slight overexposure inside the mirror separates it from the dark.
  • 3Keep the mirror off centre. Dead centre makes it a diagram.

Things to try

Window

a reflection in glass instead

Night

the same shot after dark

Puddle

the reflection below

Cooler

daylight instead of warm sun

Two faces

a passenger in the mirror too

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