Old Master Detail Crop

Photography · Old Master · Detail

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Old Master Detail Crop, A painting photographed so close you see the cracks before the face — Eye and brow, cracked surface·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

An extreme close crop of an old master oil painting showing one eye and the bridge of the nose, filling the whole frame. Fine craquelure runs across the surface, individual brush marks visible in the flesh tones, darkened varnish warming everything to amber. Flat even museum lighting, no reflections, the subject off centre and cut by the frame. Photographic, not painted.

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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.