wowprompt

Editorial studio portrait on seamless grey

A clean studio headshot with controlled light and no environment. The one to use for a professional profile rather than a social post.

Works with or without your photo.

Optional. Attach a clear, front-facing photo to keep your own face. Without one, the prompt creates an original person.

The prompt

Identity

With a photo attached: the person in the photo is the subject. Keep their face exactly as it is, with bone structure, eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, jawline, hairline, skin tone and apparent age all unchanged. Only the clothing, pose, setting and light come from this prompt.

Without a photo: create an original person, a woman in her thirties with short dark hair and strong, even features. Invent the face; do not base it on any real or well-known person.

Pose

She faces the camera square on, chin very slightly down, shoulders turned a few degrees off axis, a neutral expression with the eyes engaged.

Wardrobe

She wears a charcoal wool blazer over a plain ivory shell top. No jewellery.

Setting

Seamless mid-grey paper backdrop, lit a stop darker than the subject so she separates without a rim.

Light

A large softbox above and slightly left as key, a white reflector low and right for fill, a narrow strip light behind and right grazing the shoulder.

Camera

Shot on a Canon EOS R5 at 85mm, f/4, ISO 100. Eye level, chest-up framing, subject centred.

Finish

Studio photography, neutral colour, crisp but natural skin texture, no glow.

Avoid

plastic skin, heavy retouching, altered face shape, hard shadows on the background, coloured gels, extra fingers, text, logo, watermark

Negative prompt

plastic skin, heavy retouching, altered face shape, hard shadows on the background, coloured gels, extra fingers, text, logo, watermark

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How to run this

Copy the prompt and paste it into GPT Image, then set the aspect ratio to 4:5. Upload your reference photo before pasting, not after: a model that has already started without it will invent a face instead of keeping yours.

The prompt is written in Markdown with each part under its own heading, which is what the copy action hands over. Change one section at a time, keeping the rest intact, so you can tell which change did the work.