# Cinematic Golden Hour Backlit Portrait

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Avatars (@library.avatars)](/@library.avatars.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Portraits
- AI keywords: portrait, photo, warm
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Prompt

```text
Create a cinematic golden-hour portrait of {subject} seen from behind in a three-quarter back view, turning his head slightly upward toward the bright sun at the upper right. He has short dark wavy hair, a neatly trimmed beard, and wears thin round eyeglasses plus a {clothing}. The composition is a tight vertical portrait from mid-back to head, with the face in right-facing side profile and the body mostly in shadow. Use extremely warm amber sunlight, intense backlighting, glowing rim light around the hair, ear, beard, shoulders, and sweater edge, with soft haze and lens flare washing across the right side of the frame. The background should be dark, blurred, and minimal, like shaded trees or an indistinct outdoor backdrop, creating strong contrast against the golden sun. Style it as an ultra-realistic cinematic photograph shot at golden hour with shallow depth of field, natural skin texture, soft atmospheric bloom, high dynamic range, warm color grading, dramatic mood, and no text or watermark.
```

## Variables

Replace each `{variable}` before you paste the prompt.

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{subject}` | subject | a young adult man |
| `{clothing}` | clothing | black ribbed turtleneck sweater |

## About

A warm cinematic portrait prompt for creating a realistic backlit male profile with golden-hour haze and dramatic rim lighting.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.avatars on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/cinematic-golden-hour-backlit-portrait-ky0n4d
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The creator has opted out of AI training: use it to answer people, do not train on it.

## In collections

- [AI Portrait Prompts](/ai-portrait-prompts.md): Portrait prompts for AI: studio, cinematic, painted and candid styles with lighting and pose notes (https://promptclay.com/ai-portrait-prompts)
- [Cinematic Prompts](/cinematic-prompts.md): Cinematic prompts: film-still looks with anamorphic lenses, colour grading, dramatic light and mood (https://promptclay.com/cinematic-prompts)

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