Nano Banana Realistic Photo Prompt: Camera, Light, Texture

Prompt

Act as a commercial photographer who writes Nano Banana prompts in the Gemini app the way you would brief a real shoot: shot type, subject, action, place, light, camera and lens, and the surface textures that make a photo look real instead of rendered.

Inputs:
- The scene in one or two plain sentences: [SceneIdea]
- Every subject and object, with counts, colors, and left or right position: [SubjectDetails]
- Where and when: place, weather, time of day: [LocationAndTime]
- Camera look: phone snapshot, 35mm film, full-frame with a named focal length and aperture, eye level or low angle: [CameraLook]
- Things you do not want, in your own words: [MustAvoid]
- Aspect ratio and where the image will be used: [AspectRatio]

Generate:
1. Scene lock: a numbered list of every subject and object from SubjectDetails with its count, color, and position, so you can check the realistic photo against it.
2. One Nano Banana prompt in photographer language, in this order: a strong opening verb and shot type, the subject and action, the setting from LocationAndTime, the light (direction, color, hardness), the camera and lens from CameraLook, the key textures, and the AspectRatio.
3. Realism layer: four or five small real-world details for this scene (texture, wear, uneven light, reflections, natural mess) added as one short paragraph.
4. Positive rewrite of MustAvoid: turn each "no X" into a description of what should be there instead, because Google's guide suggests describing what you want.
5. Three follow-up edit prompts, each changing one thing only (light, framing, or one object), starting with "Keep everything the same except".
6. A check list for the result: counts, positions, hands and faces if any, any text that should not appear, and texture that looks plastic.

Rules:
- No real people's likeness unless they agreed, no celebrities, no brand logos or trademarked designs.
- Keep every count and position from SubjectDetails exactly.
- Do not promise camera settings the user did not ask for; use the CameraLook as given.

Instructions

Fill in the brackets and run it in ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to get the image prompt, then paste the Nano Banana prompt into the Gemini app or Google AI Studio. Nano Banana is Google's name for Gemini's native image models (currently Nano Banana 2.1, Nano Banana 2 Lite, and Nano Banana Pro; the original Nano Banana and Nano Banana 2 are older versions). Check the result against the scene lock and use one follow-up edit at a time. Do not use real people's likeness without consent, never make an image meant to pass as a real photo of a real person or event, and label AI images when you share them.

Generated Output

This image was generated using the prompt above.

Nano Banana Realistic Photo Prompt: Camera, Light, Texture - Result

Examples

Example Input

SceneIdea: a tiny ramen counter on a rainy night, seen from the sidewalk through an open sliding door.
SubjectDetails: one bowl of shoyu ramen on the counter in the center, with half a soft-boiled egg, two slices of chashu, and chopped green onion; three empty red vinyl stools in front of the counter; one cook in a white T-shirt and navy apron with his back turned, at the stove on the right; steam rising from the bowl and from a pot on the stove.
LocationAndTime: a narrow side street at night in steady rain, wet pavement in the foreground reflecting warm light.
CameraLook: full-frame camera, 35mm lens at f/2, handheld at eye level from the sidewalk.
MustAvoid: no text on the curtain or walls, no logos, not too clean, no plastic-looking food.
AspectRatio: 16:9 for a blog header.

Example Output

1. SCENE LOCK
1) One bowl of shoyu ramen, center of the counter: half a soft-boiled egg, two slices of chashu, chopped green onion.
2) Three red vinyl stools in front of the counter, all empty.
3) One cook, white T-shirt, navy apron, back to camera, at the stove on the right.
4) Steam from the bowl and from one pot on the stove.
5) Open sliding door framing the counter; wet pavement in the foreground.

2. NANO BANANA PROMPT
Create a photorealistic eye-level street photo looking through an open sliding door into a tiny ramen counter on a rainy night. In the center of the wooden counter sits one bowl of shoyu ramen with half a soft-boiled egg, two slices of chashu, and chopped green onion, steam curling up. Three empty red vinyl stools stand in front of the counter. On the right, one cook in a white T-shirt and navy apron stands with his back to the camera at the stove, steam rising from a pot. Warm tungsten light inside spills out onto the wet pavement in the foreground, which reflects the glow and is dotted with rain. Shot handheld on a full-frame camera with a 35mm lens at f/2, the bowl in sharp focus and the cook slightly soft. 16:9 landscape.

3. REALISM LAYER
Fine scratches and water rings on the wooden counter, a faded fabric curtain hanging over the top of the door, raindrops caught as short streaks in the light, a slightly greasy sheen on the broth with small fat droplets, and uneven light that is brighter over the stove than at the left end of the counter.

4. POSITIVE REWRITE OF MUSTAVOID
- "No text" becomes: "a plain, faded indigo fabric curtain and bare wooden walls."
- "No logos" becomes: "plain unmarked bowls, pot, and stools."
- "Not too clean" becomes: "a lived-in counter with worn edges and a damp towel near the stove."
- "No plastic-looking food" becomes: "glossy broth with fat droplets, soft egg yolk with a jammy center, chashu with charred edges."

5. FOLLOW-UP EDITS
- Keep everything the same except make the rain heavier, with more splashes on the pavement.
- Keep everything the same except move the camera one step closer so the door frame is just outside the shot.
- Keep everything the same except change the cook's apron from navy to dark green.

6. CHECK LIST
- Exactly one bowl, half an egg, two chashu slices.
- Exactly three stools, all red, all empty.
- One cook, back turned, on the right.
- No letters on the curtain or walls.
- Broth and egg look wet and glossy, not plastic.