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Photography prompts

Photography prompts that really ran: portraits, street, still life, landscapes and film looks. Each one comes with its image, model and settings, so you can swap the subject and shoot again.

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1980s Shaw Brothers Martial Arts Duel seedance-216

1980s Shaw Brothers Martial Arts Duel

Nighttime close-up flash photo of a woman with a black bob and bangs looking into the lens. — Flashcore Night Selfie in Burgundy gpt-image-2.510

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Morning Drive with an AI DJ seedance-218

Morning Drive with an AI DJ

Young woman in a crop top and pleated skirt standing in a convenience store illuminated by on-camera flash. — Y2K Convenience Store Flash Portrait grok-imagine-image17

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Nostalgic Summer Journey of Living Memories seedance-220

Nostalgic Summer Journey of Living Memories

A candid, cropped indoor snapshot of a young Japanese woman at a bar. — Candid Bar Snapshot of a Japanese Woman grok-imagine-image19

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The Orbital Gateway Awakens Above the Cyber City seedance-2

The Orbital Gateway Awakens Above the Cyber City

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Handheld Daylong Travel Vlog seedance-2.514

Handheld Daylong Travel Vlog

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2007 Chinese Neighborhood MiniDV Memory seedance-2

2007 Chinese Neighborhood MiniDV Memory

Grainy casual selfie of a catgirl with pale skin, dark hair, and a black choker. — Icy Catgirl Selfie in Grainy Japanese Style grok-imagine-image18

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Alpine Skier’s Cliff-Edge Jump seedance-2

Alpine Skier’s Cliff-Edge Jump

A woman dressed as Boa Hancock reporting outdoors in a torrential rainstorm with news graphics overlaid. — Hancock Cosplayer Reporting Through a Typhoon gpt-image-2.512

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The Third Step in the Dark Apartment Corridor seedance-2

The Third Step in the Dark Apartment Corridor

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Kiss beneath a Glowing Explosion Cloud seedance-2

Kiss beneath a Glowing Explosion Cloud

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Reference Storyboard Frames 1–4 seedance-2

Reference Storyboard Frames 1–4

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Woman Crossing 1970s Paris seedance-2-fast

Woman Crossing 1970s Paris

Low-angle portrait of a woman looking at the camera beside a large sunflower. — Woman and Sunflower Under the Summer Sky seedream-5-pro

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Kizaru’s Lightspeed Baseball Catch seedance-2-fast

Kizaru’s Lightspeed Baseball Catch

Extreme close-up selfie of a woman with one large eye, cheek, and hand framing her face. — Playful Extreme Close-Up Smartphone Selfie gpt-image-2.5

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Handheld Boyfriend-View Paris Travel Vlog seedance-2.5

Handheld Boyfriend-View Paris Travel Vlog

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Godzilla’s Atomic Breath Versus Gundam kling-3.010

Godzilla’s Atomic Breath Versus Gundam

Candid photo of a young woman at an izakaya table. — Amateur Izakaya Snapshot of a Japanese Woman grok-imagine-image16

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Midnight Pasta in the Blue-Lit Kitchen seedance-2-fast

Midnight Pasta in the Blue-Lit Kitchen

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Golden Spiky-Haired Striker Scores from the Box seedance-2

Golden Spiky-Haired Striker Scores from the Box

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Golden-Haired Energy Striker’s Winning Goal seedance-2

Golden-Haired Energy Striker’s Winning Goal

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The Touchdown Through Frozen Time seedance-2

The Touchdown Through Frozen Time

Japanese schoolgirl in uniform standing on a sunlit suburban train station platform under a blue sky. — Japanese Student at a Summer Train Station seedream-5-pro

Young woman wearing glasses lounging on a sofa while looking down at her smartphone. — Casual Sofa Phone Portrait in a Dark Room gemini-3-pro-image

Tilted selfie of a woman wearing glasses and a dark gothic top lying on a textured blanket. — Grainy Dark-Alt Bed Selfie gpt-image-2.5

A woman pointing playfully at a large pastel birthday billboard featuring an idol inside a subway station. — Playful Idol Birthday Ad in Pastel Subway Light gpt-image-2.5

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4 tips for Photography prompts

1
Lead with subject and action
Who, doing what, where: put it at the very start of the sentence.
2
Name the light
Side light, backlight, overcast or golden hour does far more than “nice light”.
3
Say the lens
“35mm street shot”, “85mm shallow depth of field” or “top-down” changes the framing.
4
Add one texture word
Film grain, Kodak tones or high-contrast black and white: pick one, don't stack them.

Questions

Can I use these prompts as they are?: Yes. “Create with it” fills in the model and ratio too, and you can copy any prompt to use elsewhere.
Which model is best for realistic photos?: Every work names its model. To compare, send the same sentence to several models at once and look at them side by side.
Can I use the images commercially?: Images you make are yours, subject to the terms of the model you used. Treat other people's works as references only.