City night bokeh portrait

This prompt places you on a busy street at night with colourful bokeh lights behind, warm and cool light on your face, glossy pavement and a cinematic teal and orange grade.

photo-city-night-bokeh-portrait — gemini — 49 words

Place me on a busy [CITY] street at night with colourful bokeh lights behind me. Keep my face, body and clothing exactly the same.

Warm and cool street light on my face, glossy pavement reflections, a shallow depth of field, cinematic teal and orange colour grade, a confident expression.

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Ask for wet streets after rain for even more colourful reflections.

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What you will get

You on a busy street of the city you named at night, with colourful bokeh lights behind you, warm and cool street light on your face, glossy pavement reflections and a cinematic teal and orange grade.

Why it works

Night portraits glow when colourful lights blur behind you, so the prompt asks for bokeh and a shallow depth of field. Warm and cool light on your face and a teal and orange grade add a film look. Wet streets, as the tip says, add more colour.

Common mistake

The bokeh looks like blurred sticker dots instead of real lights.

Fix: Add “round, soft out-of-focus light discs of different sizes, far behind me, never in front of my face”.

Also watch for

The street light colours the face in an unnatural way. Say “warm light on one side of the face, cool on the other, skin tone still natural”, and keep the heavy grade on the background.
The city looks generic, like any city. Name a local detail, such as “auto-rickshaws and shop fronts in a Mumbai lane”, and add “no readable signs or logos”.

Try a variation: after rain

Use the card tip and write “just after rain, wet roads reflecting every light, a thin mist in the air”. Keep the line that your body and clothing stay the same.

Still not right? Reply with this

Keep my exact face from the original photo: same eyes, nose, smile, skin tone and age. Change only the style.