# Real location, same grade

People and places / Setting / Building a place. Checked 2026-10-13.

A real place, made to match the look of the film without changing what is in it.

- Use when: Shooting a real shop or office and matching it to the job's look.
- Phrase: this photograph, in the same environment with the same colour grade as the look reference, nothing added and nothing removed, followed by a list of the props that stay
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/setting/real-location-regrade
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/setting/real-location-regrade.json

## Watch out

- A list of what stays is what the model holds on to; without it props move or vanish. (practitioner; Rourke Heath (8 Aug 2026) via Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. This photograph, in the same environment with the same colour grade as the look reference, nothing added and nothing removed, followed by a list of the props that stay.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. This photograph, in the same environment with the same colour grade as the look reference, nothing added and nothing removed, followed by a list of the props that stay.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: this photograph, in the same environment with the same colour grade as the look reference, nothing added and nothing removed, followed by a list of the props that stay
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. This photograph, in the same environment with the same colour grade as the look reference, nothing added and nothing removed, followed by a list of the props that stay.
```

## Goes well with

- Location plate: https://directorchair.ai/setting/location-plate
- The look block: https://directorchair.ai/look/global-look-block

## Source

Own words from Director Chair field notes on image prompting

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