Moody Cinematic Still

Film · Cinematic · Still

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Moody Cinematic Still, One subject, a lot of dark, and weather doing the acting — Aircraft in dark forest·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

A cinematic film still: a small propeller aircraft sitting on a wet runway at the edge of a dark forest, seen wide and low with mist hanging between the trees. The subject is small in the frame, most of it dark green and near black, one weak light source picking out a single hard edge of the subject and the wet ground. Desaturated toward green, fine grain, anamorphic wide framing, nothing explained.

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.

Settings on GPT Image

Size: 1024 x 1024
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Keep the subject small and the frame mostly dark.
2Atmosphere in the air is what makes it cinematic rather than a photograph of a thing.
3Desaturate toward one colour and let it dominate.