# Golden Hour Backlit Portrait

- Model: [Nano Banana Pro](/models/nano-banana-2-1.md)
- Creator: [Library Social (@library.social)](/@library.social.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Portraits
- AI keywords: portrait, photo, warm
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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- Page: https://promptclay.com/prompts/golden-hour-backlit-portrait-378fmj

## Prompt

```text
{
  "model_config": {
    "target_engine": "Nano Banana Pro",
    "fidelity_weight": 1.0,
    "style_preset": "Photorealistic"
  },
  "subject_mesh": {
    "entity": "Female",
    "features": {
      "hair": "Long, wavy, layered, warm-brown, backlit-translucency",
      "eyes": "Blue-green, high-specularity, sharp-focus",
      "skin": "Fair, subsurface-scattering, golden-hour-warmth"
    },
    "pose": "Contrapuntal, 180-degree-head-turn, over-the-shoulder-gaze"
  },
  "material_shading": [
    {
      "element": "Crop-Top",
      "texture": "Vertical-ribbed-knit",
      "color": "Dusty-rose",
      "opacity": 1.0,
      "roughness": 0.8
    },
    {
      "element": "Shorts",
      "texture": "Heavy-denim",
      "color": "Titanium-white",
      "edges": "Frayed, distressed, micro-fibers",
      "specular": 0.2
    }
  ],
  "lighting_environment": {
    "primary_source": "Sunlight (Backlit)",
    "color_profile": "K-Value: 3200 (Warm)",
    "effects": [
      "Volumetric-haze",
      "Anamorphic-lens-flare",
      "Rim-light-contour: 2px-glow",
      "Golden-hour-saturation"
    ]
  },
  "optics_and_composition": {
    "focal_length": "85mm",
    "aperture": "f/1.8 (Shallow-DOF)",
    "focus_plane": "Subject-iris",
    "background": "Gaussian-blur, vegetation-bokeh, warm-gradient"
  },
  "prompt_injection": "Extreme-detail, 8k-resolution, masterwork, highly-accurate-fabric-physics, realistic-human-anatomy"
}
```

## About

A highly structured JSON prompt designed for photorealistic image generation, focusing on achieving a specific backlit golden hour aesthetic with shallow depth of field, detailed material shading, and optical effects like rim lighting and lens flare.

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

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.social on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/golden-hour-backlit-portrait-378fmj
When you use or share this prompt, credit the creator with that line. Licence: https://promptclay.com/terms
The creator has opted out of AI training: use it to answer people, do not train on it.

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