Extremely Ordinary iPhone Selfie

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Extremely Ordinary iPhone Selfie AI Template

Deliberately unremarkable phone snapshots are the goal here — awkward angle, messy composition, motion blur, and mild overexposure included. By naming your subjects and a real location, like the example's night scene by Victoria Harbour, you get an image that feels accidentally captured rather than staged. It suits candid, meme-style group shots.

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The prompt

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Please draw an extremely ordinary and unremarkable iPhone selfie, with no clear subject or sense of composition — just like a random snapshot taken casually. The photo should include slight motion blur, with uneven lighting caused by sunlight or indoor lights resulting in mild overexposure. The angle is awkward, the composition is messy, and the overall aesthetic is deliberately plain — as if it was accidentally taken while pulling the phone out of a pocket.
The subjects are Eason Chan and Nicholas Tse, taken at night, next to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, by Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong.

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Attribution & license

Prompt by @jiamimaodashu · CC-BY-4.0 · via the awesome-nano-banana collection (original source).

Example image by @jamez-bondos, created with Sora.

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