# Sunlit Candid City 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, avatar
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Prompt

```text
Create an ultra-realistic close-up portrait photograph of a young {subject_ethnicity} woman smiling softly at the camera on a bright city street. Frame her face very tightly, slightly off-center, with long dark brown-black hair blowing across her forehead, eyes, and cheeks in loose strands. She has luminous dewy skin, glossy natural pink lips, subtle makeup, warm brown eyes, and a gentle candid expression. The scene is backlit by strong low afternoon sunlight coming from behind her head, creating a bright starburst lens flare near the upper right side of her hair, horizontal flare streaks across the image, glowing rim light on individual hair strands, and a hazy film-like bloom. Use a shallow depth of field so the urban background is heavily blurred: indistinct buildings, street railings, road, and parked cars in cool blue-gray tones. The left edge should include a soft out-of-focus vertical foreground blur as if a hand, hair, or camera strap partially covers the lens. Color grade with warm golden highlights, soft contrast, slight overexposure, natural skin texture, and nostalgic 35mm film photography aesthetics. Square 1:1 composition, intimate candid snapshot, realistic optics, no text, no watermark, no accessories, no extra people.
```

## Variables

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

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{subject_ethnicity}` | subject ethnicity | East Asian |

## About

A photorealistic square close-up portrait of a smiling young woman with windblown hair, golden lens flare, and a blurred city street background.

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

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.avatars on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/sunlit-candid-city-portrait-pbvhft
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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