Motion Blur Portrait

Photography · Motion Blur · Portrait

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Motion Blur Portrait, A face caught mid movement, sharp in one place and gone everywhere else — Head trailing across frame·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 portrait shot at a slow shutter with a burst of flash: the sitter turning their head fast, so one eye and the edge of a headband freeze sharply while the rest of the face trails across the frame in a soft ghost. Dark background swallowing the trail, cool tones with one warm highlight, visible grain. The movement is the subject, not a flaw.

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

Tips

1Name what stays sharp. One small frozen area is what makes it read as deliberate.
2Slow shutter plus flash, not a motion blur filter.
3A dark background lets the trail dissolve rather than smear over detail.