Night Flash Portrait

Photography · Flash · Night

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Night Flash Portrait, One hard flash in a dark car, everything beyond a metre swallowed by black — Figure in a dark car·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 portrait taken with a single hard on camera flash inside a dark car at night: a young man in the passenger seat with his hand near his mouth, lit flatly by the flash while everything past his shoulder falls to complete black. Cool colour with a faint green cast, heavy grain, a couple of red reflections from the dashboard. Candid rather than posed, clearly shot from very close.

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