Windblown Black-and-White Portrait in Old Analogue Film Style, from Your Own Photo
Use your own photo to make a moody black-and-white portrait like an old scratched film print: looking back over the shoulder, hair in the wind, dark wool coat.
Drag the handle: the original photo on the left, this prompt’s output in Gemini (Nano Banana) on the right.
The prompt
Upload your own photo to the tool first, then send this prompt.
Use the uploaded photo as the only identity reference. The person must stay instantly recognizable as the same person: identical facial proportions, eye shape and spacing, eyebrows, nose, lips, jawline, beard and moustache shape and density, hairline, hairstyle and skin tone. Do not beautify, slim, whiten or make the person look younger. The pose and the expression may change as described below; the identity may not. Create a moody black-and-white portrait that looks like an old, scratched analogue film photograph: the person stands turned three-quarters away from the camera and looks back over the shoulder into the lens with a calm, serious expression, while a strong wind blows the hair across the frame (if the hair is short, the wind lifts the coat collar instead); the person wears [a dark wool coat with the collar up]; behind them a plain, weathered light-grey wall; soft overcast light, heavy film grain, dust specks and fine scratches, slightly faded blacks; framed from the hips up. Keep the hair length of the photo. No text. Aspect ratio 4:5.
This prompt builds a new scene from your photo: a moody black-and-white portrait that looks like an old, scratched analogue print, where you stand turned three-quarters away and look back over your shoulder with a calm, serious expression while the wind blows your hair across the frame. The example is a before/after, but the before photo is itself an AI-generated sample, not a real person: a selfie-style portrait of a woman with dark wavy shoulder-length hair in a grey t-shirt. The first paragraph is the “identity lock”; do not delete or shorten it. Because the pose and expression change, only the likeness is locked and the face drifts more easily.
Upload a sharp photo with a large face; in the result the head is turned and hair covers part of the face, so the model needs more detail to work from.
Compare the result with your original; grain and scratches hide small differences, so check the nose, lips and jaw, and regenerate if it does not look like you.
The prompt works the same with a woman's or a man's photo: with short hair, the wind lifts the coat collar instead of the hair.
Use only your own photo or one of someone who agreed. Works with Gemini (Nano Banana) and ChatGPT; results vary from run to run.
How to use it in three steps
Open Gemini or ChatGPT and upload your photo.
Copy the prompt and replace the bracketed parts with your own subject.
Check the result and, in the next message, describe only what should change — step-by-step edits work better than one long instruction.
Similar prompts
BeforeAfter
Your own photo, same faceUses your photoBefore & after4:5
