Prompts for Pet Photography - Nano Banana 2

Nano Banana 2 Get App arrow_forward menu close Prompts for Pet Photography The line between a convincing pet photograph and a stuffed-toy render runs through two things: how the fur is lit and where the camera is standing. Almost every generated dog or cat that looks wrong is lit flat from the front and shot from a standing human’s eye level, which is exactly how nobody photographs animals well.

Fur is thousands of semi-transparent strands, and it only looks like fur when light passes through the edges. Put a light source behind and slightly to one side of the animal and ask for a rim of backlight along the back, ears and tail — that halo of lit strands is the single most effective thing you can write into a pet prompt. Front light alone renders the coat as a solid painted shape.

Shoot at the animal’s eye level. Say it in the prompt — “camera at floor level, lens at the dog’s eye height” — because the default is a downward angle that shortens the muzzle and makes the animal look small and submissive. Down at their level you get eye contact, a clean background of whatever is behind them rather than the floor, and a natural sense of the animal as the subject.