Turn Landscape Photo into Cinematic Sunset Video

If you have a beautiful landscape photo, instead of just sharing it as a photo to a moving sunset scene.

Small environmental movements can be quite impressive, especially in nature, mountain, sea, lake and cityscapes. The passing of the clouds, the changing of the light, the slight movement of the trees and the slow approach of the camera can turn the photo into a living scene.

The official prompt guide published by Google for Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash also includes clear description of camera movement and ongoing action is recommended. Omni 1.1 can extend existing videos in 10-second increments.

How to use?
Upload your landscape photo as reference and use the prompt below.

What does the Video Prompt do?
Designed to transform a still landscape photo into a cinematic Shorts/Reels scene of approximately 10 seconds containing environmental movements and slow camera movement.

Video Prompt:

"Create a cinematic 10-second video from the uploaded landscape photograph while preserving the original geography, mountains, buildings, trees, water, colors and overall composition. Transform the scene into a beautiful golden-hour sunset. The camera slowly moves forward with a smooth cinematic dolly-in while maintaining the original landscape as the main focus. Clouds drift naturally across the sky, trees move gently in the breeze and subtle sunlight reflections shimmer across the water. Realistic atmospheric depth, natural environmental motion, physically accurate lighting, cinematic color grading, photorealistic landscape, smooth camera movement, peaceful emotional atmosphere, vertical 9:16 composition."

Changeable fields:
trees move gently in the breeze.

For example, in the sea photo:

small waves move naturally across the water

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Usage tip:
Instead of requiring too much movement in landscape videos, 2-3 natural movements. For example, cloud + water + camera movement may be sufficient for most scenes.