Images & Video · Blog post · source Apr 24, 2026
90-Minute Lifestyle Shots with Midjourney and Nano Banana
Generate 8 on-brand lifestyle images with your real product in them
The author puts it at 90 minutes and about $260 per batch of 8 (mostly creative time), against $4,800-$11,500 for a studio shoot.
Per source Reported by an agency about its own client work, not independently verified.
Copy-paste prompt
Step 1 (Midjourney): [style guide prefix] [scene description] [shopper context] [lighting direction] [composition] --style raw --v 7 --ar 1:1 Step 2 (Nano Banana): Place the product from image 2 into the scene from image 1 [in the hands of the woman], matching the lighting direction and shadow from the scene.
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What they did
An Amazon creative agency lays out the workflow its team ships to clients: a brief with 8 shot concepts, each answering a shopper question (use, result, emotion, scale, ingredients, comparison, context, close-up); Midjourney v7 generates the scenes; Nano Banana inserts a clean packshot of the real product, matching light and shadow; Photoshop cleans up and Magnific upscales; then a QA pass at mobile thumbnail and desktop zoom sizes.
How it went
The author puts it at 90 minutes and about $260 per batch of 8 (mostly creative time), against $4,800-$11,500 for a studio shoot. He says the QA pass catches the 10-20% of shots that fall apart at full resolution.
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Worth knowing
The author runs the agency that sells this work, and the costs are his estimates, not a measured case. He says AI still fails for apparel on models, multi-ingredient food, mechanical products and visible beauty textures, and that hero images still need a real product photo.