Nano Banana 2 produces detailed photorealistic images from text prompts. Its strength is in how it handles real-world visual detail — specific materials, lighting conditions, and photographic composition. The better your prompt describes these details, the more impressive the output.

These 20 prompts are structured to demonstrate the range of scenarios where nano-banana-2 performs well.

Prompt Structure for Nano Banana 2

Four elements matter most:

Specific subject — not "a woman" but "a woman in her 60s with silver hair and weathered hands"
Setting and context — not "outside" but "an empty cobblestone market square at dawn"
Lighting direction — "side-lit by a single window", "golden hour backlight", "overcast diffuse light"
Camera or composition — "close-up portrait", "wide environmental shot", "bird's-eye flat lay"

The more specific these four, the more the output looks like intentional photography rather than generic AI image.

20 Nano Banana 2 Prompts

Portrait Photography

An elderly fisherman sitting on a dock at sunrise. Deep wrinkles, salt-and-pepper stubble. Warm backlight. The harbor is out of focus behind him. Close portrait.
A young chef in a professional kitchen. White jacket, flour on her sleeve. Looking directly at camera. Soft diffused kitchen light. Medium shot.
A street musician — young man, worn guitar, headphones around his neck. Busy city background, bokeh. Late afternoon light. 35mm lens aesthetic.
A botanist examining a specimen through a loupe. Close detail on the specimen. Lab coat. Bright clinical light from above. Concentration on her face.
A ballet dancer backstage, alone. Full costume. Sitting on the floor, checking her pointe shoes. A single overhead lamp. Intimate, documentary.

Product Photography

A handmade ceramic mug, steam rising, on a wooden table with a folded linen napkin. Morning window light from the left. Minimal composition. Close.
A leather-bound journal and fountain pen on aged oak desk. Inkwell nearby. Warm candlelight. Slightly angled, Dutch still-life composition.
A glass perfume bottle on a wet marble surface. The bottle casts a rainbow refraction. Studio light from above. Product photography.
A wristwatch on a textured concrete surface. Close macro. The watch face sharp, background blurred. Cold blue ambient light.
A dark chocolate bar, partially broken, with hazelnuts and sea salt visible. On black slate. Dramatic side-light from the left. Food photography.

Landscape and Environment

A single tree in a salt flat, reflected in a thin water layer. Completely still. Dusk — orange sky, blue shadows. Wide, minimal.
An icelandic waterfall emerging from fog. No people. The fall is the only warm element in a cold grey landscape. Overcast.
A flooded forest — trees standing in still water. Autumn. Yellow and orange reflections in the black water. Low angle.
A clifftop lighthouse in a storm. Dramatic low angle looking up at the light. Rain visible in the beam. Night.
A desert highway at dusk. The road bisects the frame perfectly. No vehicles. First stars visible in the sky above. Low angle looking forward.

Architecture and Interior

A brutalist concrete library interior. Tall windows, natural light cutting through on the floor. Rows of shelves receding into shadow. Dramatic.
A minimalist Japanese tea room. Paper screens. A single ceramic bowl on a dark wood surface. Morning. Absolute stillness.
An overgrown greenhouse — broken glass panels, wild plants, rusted iron structure. Golden light through the broken roof. Wide interior.
A Victorian-era train station. Steam. High iron vaulted ceiling. A train arrives platform level. Passengers in period dress. Wide.
A tiny house interior — every surface used cleverly. Books, plants, kitchen. A cat sleeps on the one chair. Warm afternoon light.

Using These on aicut

aicut gives you access to nano-banana-2 in the AI image creation flow. Recommended approach for these prompts:

Test all 20 in nano-banana-2 first — fast generation lets you work through the full list in one session. Generate 2 seeds per prompt, pick the best, and shortlist the 5 strongest directions.

Re-generate shortlisted prompts in nano-banana-pro for maximum quality final images.

Animate top results with Kling o3 if you want a video clip — the portrait prompts (#1–5) animate well, as do the landscape prompts (#11–15).

Platform Use Cases

Instagram Reels: Animated versions of prompts #1–5 (portraits) and #11–15 (landscapes) perform well on Reels. Animate with Kling o3 and post as 7–10 second loops.

YouTube channel art and thumbnails: Product prompts (#6–10) and architecture prompts (#16–20) produce strong thumbnail or channel art imagery.

Short-form video B-roll: Environment prompts (#11–15) generate atmospheric B-roll imagery that works as background for text-overlay content.

Key Takeaways

Nano Banana 2 prompt quality scales directly with how specific the four elements are: subject, setting, lighting, and composition.
Test all variations in nano-banana-2 first; re-generate winners in nano-banana-pro.
Portraits and landscapes animate well with Kling o3 for video content.
Available on aicut with both nano-banana models accessible from the model selector.

Generate these prompts with nano-banana-2 at aicut — then upgrade to nano-banana-pro for your best results.