Prompt template
Documentary Street Portrait Study
A documentary street portrait of one unposed person amid worn posters and wet pavement, unretouched, with location, age, gender, outfit and gesture as controls.
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{ "generation_request": { "meta_data": { "tool": "NanoBanana Pro", "task_type": "photoreal_artistic_street_photography", "version": "v1.0_STREET_ART_REALISM_SER_EN", "priority": "highest" }, "output_settings": { "aspect_ratio": "4:5", "orientation": "portrait", "resolution_target": "ultra_high_res", "render_style": "ultra_photoreal_candid_film_still", "sharpness": "crisp_but_natural", "film_grain": "subtle_35mm", "color_grade": "restrained_cinematic_realism", "dynamic_range": "natural_not_hdr", "skin_rendering": "real_texture_no_retouch" }, "creative_prompt": { "scene_summary": "Candid artistic street photograph on location in [CITY/NEIGHBORHOOD]. A real, unposed moment that feels documentary and emotionally true.", "subject": "A [AGE] [GENDER] wearing [CLOTHING], caught mid-action: [MICRO-ACTION]. Natural facial expression, slight asymmetry preserved.", "camera": "35mm lens equivalent, eye-level, close but respectful distance, imperfect framing like a real street photographer, focus on the eyes, shallow-to-medium depth of field.", "lighting": "Motivated natural light from [SOURCE: shop window / street lamp / sunset / neon], deep but detailed shadows, no studio lighting.", "environment_details": "Street textures: worn posters, scratched metal, rain-speckled pavement, subtle reflections in glass, real urban clutter, no clean studio background.", "authenticity_markers": "Subtle motion blur on background only, slight halation on highlights, tiny film gate weave, realistic grain, no beauty retouch.", "mood": "[MOOD: melancholic / hopeful / tense / quiet joy], cinematic but believable." }, "negative_prompt": [ "studio lighting", "beauty retouch", "plastic skin", "over-sharpened", "HDR", "AI glow", "perfect symmetry", "overly clean background", "fake bokeh shapes", "text", "logo", "watermark", "painterly", "cartoon" ] } }
When to use it
Use when a documentary-style portrait must sit in real urban clutter, unretouched, with the subject caught mid-gesture.
How to get the best result
- Describe the person in four facts, age, gender, outfit and gesture; retouching and studio light are already ruled out.
- Choose a gesture that reads as caught, like adjusting a bag or turning away; the framing is meant to look imperfect.
- Give a specific city or neighborhood; the street textures are fixed, but the place decides what the clutter looks like.
Watch-outs
- Five short values sit inside a long JSON block, so each must be a concrete noun or the fixed settings outweigh it.
- The light source and mood are slash-separated options left in the prompt; edit each to one choice or the model picks.
- The prompt's 4:5 setting does not control output size; select 4:5 portrait in the generator.
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Source and attribution
- Template source
- https://x.com/astronomerozge1/status/2008988591800877159
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
- Example cases by
- Özge Döner