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Portrait prompts

Portrait prompts: studio headshots, street portraits, ID-photo styles and cinematic close-ups. Each spells out the light, expression and lens, so you only change who is in it.

A physicist writing complex mathematical equations on a large chalkboard inside a laboratory.
Physicist Writing Equations in an Octane-Rendered Lab grok-imagine-image
Physicist Writing Equations in an Octane-Rendered Lab
A young woman smiling candidly at the camera under dappled natural light on a bridge.
Candid Smiling Woman in Dappled Shanghai Light gpt-image-2.5
Candid Smiling Woman in Dappled Shanghai Light
Storyboard panels illustrating a slow dolly shot toward a plain door without a number in an apartment corridor.
Storyboard: The Unnumbered Door gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
Storyboard: The Unnumbered Door
Close-up of a car tire splashing water on a wet highway during rain.
Tire Cutting Through Rainwater on a Highway grok-imagine-image
Tire Cutting Through Rainwater on a Highway
Young girl holding a white Persian cat against a rich red Persian rug background.
Persian Carpet Portrait with a Persian Cat z-image
Persian Carpet Portrait with a Persian Cat
Side profile of a woman holding a treat in a bakery, highlighted by golden rim lighting.
Japanese Film Portrait with Golden Rim Light gpt-image-2.5
Japanese Film Portrait with Golden Rim Light
Grainy candid snapshot of a stylish short-haired student in a bookstore setting.
Chinese Tomboy Student in a Grainy Bookstore Snapshot gpt-image-2.5
Chinese Tomboy Student in a Grainy Bookstore Snapshot
A woman with short hair and a cap sitting relaxed in a wicker chair outdoors under direct camera flash.
Tomboy Woman in a Harsh Flash Night Snapshot gpt-image-2.5
Tomboy Woman in a Harsh Flash Night Snapshot

4 tips for Portrait prompts

  1. 1

    Person first, mood second

    Age, hair and clothes come first, then a state like “quietly looking out of the window”.

  2. 2

    Light sets the character

    Rembrandt light feels calm, a softbox feels clean, neon rim light feels cinematic.

  3. 3

    Give the framing

    Close-up, half body or full body tells the model how much background to keep.

  4. 4

    Leave real people out

    Describe features instead of naming real people; public works can't be photos of real people.

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.
Can I use my own photo as a reference?
Add it as a reference image on the create page; models that take references keep the person's features as well as they can. Don't publish works made from other people's real photos.
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.