In recent times, artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way. Advanced AI models can do more than just search for information on the internet, chat with the user or solve complicated math equations. The large language models have also become quite proficient at generating desired photos, changing the background, fixing the lighting, erasing faces or unnecessary elements, changing the style and attire of preexisting images. Without any technical knowledge or photo editing software, creating and editing photos has become really easy.
AI models like Gemini can generate beautiful, high-resolution images in no time. That too, without using any complex prompts, engineer-level prompts. Here are the 5 prompts that can help users generate realistic photos.
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5 successful photo prompts for generating realistic-looking photos
1. The cinematic street portrait
Prompt: A hyper-realistic portrait of a retired jazz musician, mid-60s, with deep-set eyes, wearing a dark tweed coat. He is sitting on a weathered wooden bench in a rain-slicked back alley at 3 AM. Cinematic, low-key lighting with a single, harsh, orange-toned streetlamp creating a strong rim light and casting long, deep shadows. Shot on a 50mm prime lens, ultra-sharp focus on the eyes, deep shadows, subtle film grain, 8K resolution, photojournalistic style.
Expected outcome
This prompt leans heavily on cinematic language and sharp technical detailing, crafting a brooding, high-contrast visual tone—much like the frames that define modern photography at its finest.
2. Golden hour wildlife macro
Prompt: A macro photograph of a vibrant Red-Eyed Tree Frog clinging vertically to a thin, dewy green plant stem. The frog has striking red eyes and bright orange toes. The background is a soft, completely out-of-focus natural bokeh of lush green foliage and sunlit dew drops. Lighting is warm, diffused golden hour light, perfectly illuminating the frog's skin texture. Telephoto-macro lens, F/2.8, professional wildlife photography, ultra-realistic, 8K resolution.
Expected outcome
This prompt puts the focus on life thriving in the wilderness, using macro detail and gentle bokeh techniques often seen in nature photography. Together, they create a frame that feels vivid, natural, and quietly alive.
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3. High-contrast architectural landscape
Prompt: An ultra-detailed, high-contrast black and white photograph of a lone, futuristic skyscraper piercing through a layer of thick morning fog. Low-angle shot from street level, emphasising the massive scale and vertical lines of the building. The base is surrounded by a few blurred, silhouetted people. Dramatic, hard sunlight creating sharp, deep shadows on the concrete and steel. Architectural photography style, fine art print quality, 100mm tilt-shift lens, 8K UHD.
Expected outcome
This prompt leans into a grand visual scale, using black-and-white to heighten the drama. The absence of colour brings out the geometry and textures in a way that ordinary frames often fail to capture.
4. Candid interior portrait with natural light
Prompt: A candid, photorealistic portrait of a young woman, mid-20s, with a genuine, gentle smile, sitting at a wooden kitchen table, drinking coffee. She is wearing a simple knit sweater. Soft, diffused natural daylight streaming from a large window to the left, casting subtle, volumetric shadows and a soft glow on her face. Shallow depth of field (bokeh) with the background (a slightly messy, warm-toned kitchen) gently blurred. Shot on a Canon 85mm lens, editorial quality, ultra-sharp focus on the subject, natural colour grading, 4K resolution.
Expected outcome
This prompt tries to capture a candid moment indoors—unplanned, unpolished. It leans on the quality of natural light to give the frame its soft, genuine feel, the kind that makes a scene breathe on its own.
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5. Epic environmental still life
Prompt: A single, battered, leather-bound adventure journal lying open on a weathered rock. The scene is a misty, moss-covered forest floor at late morning. The journal pages are damp with dew, and there's a faint trail of smoke curling from a hidden campfire in the background. Cinematic, earthy colour grading (teal and orange contrast). Wide-angle, low-to-the-ground perspective, with the journal sharply in focus and the forest stretching out into the mist. Ultra-detailed, photo-realism, 8K.
Expected outcome
This prompt focuses on an object in its natural setting, but uses a few cinematic touches to make the scene feel richer. It turns a basic product shot into something more atmospheric and expressive.
It is suggested not to correct an image generated using the prompts too many times to avoid any prompt-related complexities. These prompts can be used to get desired outcomes with a bit of tweaking here and there.
