Spotlight Smoke Silhouette
Photography · Spotlight · Smoke
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.
A figure caught mid leap inside a single hard beam of light cutting down through heavy smoke, arms raised, holding something small. The beam itself is visible in the haze and carries all the tone in the frame, the background falls to total black, the figure reads as a near silhouette with only edges lit. Cool blue gel on the light, fine grain, nothing else visible at all.
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
Download the examplesSend 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
- 1The beam must be visible in the haze. That is the picture.
- 2Total black background, no fill at all.
- 3Catch the subject mid movement so the silhouette has energy.
Things to try
Two beams
crossed beams from opposite sides
Warm gel
amber light instead of blue
Crowd
many silhouettes in the same haze
Object
a chair or instrument instead of a person
From above
the beam falling straight down
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