Polaroid instant photo, direct flash, soft focus, faded colours.

Polaroid instant

Flash, faded colours and a white frame: a personal, vintage snapshot.

Prompt instructions

Polaroid instant photo, direct flash, soft focus, faded colours. [your subject] in [your setting].

Nano Banana Pro reads full sentences joined into a paragraph.

SubjectSetting

Grain, sensor noise and vignetting date an image: a shop scene with them read as a photo from 2008. Grain belongs to a film or snapshot register, not to realism as such.measured: Director Chair field notes on image prompting (Aug 2026)

Warm, soft skin tones and a nostalgic photo feel.

Nineties home video: lo-fi, glitchy, nostalgic.

The first Director Chair spec, own words Checked 2026-10-13.

ShotDeck: real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)

Flim: film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)