About This AI Prompt
Transform your reference photo into a cinematic nighttime portrait holding a glowing orange sky lantern with warm fairy light bokeh and golden illumination.
This prompt creates an atmospheric nighttime portrait by using a single primary light source: a glowing paper sky lantern held above the subject. The warm amber illumination casts soft highlights across the face, hands, and rolled-sleeve shirt, creating realistic contrast against the dark background. A shallow depth of field isolates the subject while producing creamy, distant bokeh from fairy lights, emphasizing a peaceful and celebratory mood.
Prompt Details
This character portraits prompt gives clear instructions for the subject, style, lighting, composition, and other details that shape the final image.
Create a Similar Result With Your Own Photo
Use this prompt with your own photo to recreate a similar look to the example shown on this page. Start with the prompt as written, then adjust the subject, lighting, composition, background, or style to suit your photo.
Suitable For
- face-focused imagery
- photorealistic imagery
- bokeh photography
- depth-of-field effects
Reference & AI-Generated Results
Compare the reference image with the AI-generated result to see how the prompt transforms the original image and understand the intended style, composition, lighting, and overall visual direction.
Copy the AI Prompt
Copy the complete prompt below and use it as your starting point. Adjust individual visual details only when you need a different result.
Create an ultra-realistic, cinematic night-time portrait using the uploaded reference photo as the identity reference. Preserve the person's exact facial identity, facial structure, skin tone, natural features, and apparent age. Do not change their identity or make them look like a different person. Adapt the hairstyle and outfit naturally to the person's gender while maintaining the same overall styling, colour palette, and aesthetic.
SUBJECT & APPEARANCE:
A young adult standing outdoors at night, holding a large illuminated orange paper sky lantern above their head with both hands. The subject has a relaxed, joyful expression, looking upward towards the glowing lantern with a subtle natural smile. Maintain realistic body proportions, natural hand positioning, and authentic facial expressions. Add dark stylish sunglasses if they suit the reference subject.
POSE & COMPOSITION:
Both arms are raised naturally, with the hands gently supporting opposite sides of the lantern's circular bottom opening. The subject's head is slightly tilted upwards. Capture the person from approximately mid-thigh upwards, with the lantern occupying a substantial portion of the upper frame. Keep the subject positioned slightly towards the right side of the composition.
OUTFIT:
A clean, elegant white or warm ivory button-down shirt with sleeves casually rolled up to the elbows. Pair it with beige or light neutral trousers. Maintain a relaxed, sophisticated, minimal outfit suitable for a nighttime celebration. Adapt the clothing naturally for the person's gender without changing the overall colour scheme.
ENVIRONMENT & BACKGROUND:
A beautiful outdoor nighttime setting decorated with numerous warm golden fairy lights arranged along a railing or boundary in the background. Create hundreds of softly blurred golden circular bokeh lights at different distances. Add a dark evening sky with a few distant glowing vertical light trails resembling small fireworks or celebratory lights. Keep the background atmospheric, deep, and slightly out of focus.
SKY LANTERN:
A large traditional orange paper sky lantern dominates the upper-left and upper-central portion of the frame. Its thin translucent orange paper should display realistic folds, wrinkles, delicate creases, and natural irregular edges. The circular bottom opening should reveal a small burning flame or glowing fuel source. Its warm orange illumination should realistically illuminate the person's face, hands, shirt, and arms.
LIGHTING & COLOUR GRADING:
Use the lantern as the primary warm light source, creating beautiful amber and golden highlights across the subject. Introduce subtle shadows, realistic skin reflections, and soft ambient nighttime lighting. Apply cinematic warm-orange colour grading with deep blacks, rich golden tones, and natural skin colours. The background should have strong depth of field and beautiful creamy bokeh.
CAMERA & PHOTOGRAPHY:
Professional DSLR photography, vertical 3:4 Instagram portrait composition, 50mm portrait lens, natural perspective, eye-level to slightly low camera angle, medium-full body framing, realistic depth of field, sharp subject details, soft background blur, high dynamic range, photorealistic textures, and professional cinematic photography.
MOOD:
Peaceful, dreamy, celebratory, intimate, and magical. Capture the feeling of a beautiful nighttime celebration illuminated by a glowing sky lantern.
STRICT OUTPUT REQUIREMENTS:
Aspect ratio must be STRICTLY 3:4 vertical (Instagram post). Preserve the uploaded person's identity accurately. Maintain realistic anatomy, natural hands, authentic lighting, and believable environmental details.
no text, no watermark, no logos, no extra people, no distorted hands or faces.Compatible AI Image Generators
Ready to create? Use this prompt with your favorite AI image generator to create or edit your image. Different tools and models may interpret it differently, so feel free to experiment.
ChatGPT Image Generation
Great for image generation and editing.
Google Gemini
Useful for detailed prompt-based image generation and image editing workflows.
Midjourney
Useful for detailed visual prompts, styles, compositions, and creative image concepts.
Stable Diffusion
Useful for customizable image-generation workflows and prompt-driven experimentation.
Best Practice: Start with the prompt as written, then change one visual element at a time when refining your result.
How to Use This AI Prompt
Copy the prompt above and use it with your preferred AI image generator to get similar result on your photo also. Start with the original prompt, then make small changes when you want to adjust the final result.
Tips for Better Results
- Start with the original prompt: Use the prompt as written before changing anything.
- Use your own photo: Upload your photo and use the prompt to create a similar look when your AI tool supports image input or editing.
- Change one detail at a time: Adjust the lighting, background, composition, colors, or style one step at a time.
- Try a few variations: Generate different versions and keep the one that matches your goal best.
Note: Results can vary depending on the AI tool, model, settings, and your photo.






















