How I Recreated a Surreal Car/Glamour Editorial

I came across an incredible post from u/kngzero about high-level creative planning for Nano Banana, and honestly, it pushed me to rethink how I structure my own shoots. His approach wasn’t just “prompt in, image out,” but full-on production planning: character creation, outfit design, lighting references, and scene prep.

After reading his breakdown, I decided to try something inspired by his workflow. I didn’t copy his piece, but I rebuilt my own version using the same methodology. The results ended up surprisingly close in mood and quality.

Here’s the general idea of what I used:

*“The woman from the headshot is wearing the white and blue outfit, gold accessories, and sneakers. She is laying and posing in the baby blue and white tall grass of a white and blue surrealist landscape. Shot like a Vogue editorial with soft 2-point lighting. Captured on a medium-format camera with a 200mm lens, slight overhead angle. After generating the main character + outfit + environment, I added the vehicle separately. I avoided calling it a ‘car’ to prevent NB from automatically adding wheels.”*

Original idea post: Car Glamour Editorial No-Prompt by u/Kngzero

The biggest takeaway:
The planning matters way more than the literal prompt.

Building your character, scene, and lighting beforehand gives you way more control than just stacking adjectives.

Props again to u/kngzero for sharing his knowledge. Posts like his are the reason this community keeps leveling up.

I’ll drop my prompts for each image in the comments. Let me know what you think!