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The recipe
The shot never describes the person. It describes what is happening to them, which is what keeps the face out of the variables.
Getting it right
Composed
The locked line comes from the character sheet; everything after it comes from the recipe above. Swap in your own line and nothing else changes.
Midjourney
A matched pair of photographs of a man, late twenties, Northern European features, a long face with a high forehead, grey-blue hooded eyes, feathered brows, a slightly upturned nose, a thinner upper lip, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, ear-length curly copper red hair, fair skin, heavily freckled, tall with a lean build. Wearing heavy cotton workwear, an earth-tone palette of clay, moss and rust, in a cluttered workshop bench, warm practical lamps in frame, camera at eye level. Identical framing, identical light, identical distance, side by side. One variable changed between the two frames and nothing else. Same lens, same time of day, no colour grading difference --ar 9:16 --style raw --seed 442759732 --cref [url of your approved reference frame] --cw 100
Flux
A matched pair of photographs of a man, late twenties, Northern European features, a long face with a high forehead, grey-blue hooded eyes, feathered brows, a slightly upturned nose, a thinner upper lip, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, ear-length curly copper red hair, fair skin, heavily freckled, tall with a lean build. Wearing heavy cotton workwear, an earth-tone palette of clay, moss and rust, in a cluttered workshop bench, warm practical lamps in frame, camera at eye level. Identical framing, identical light, identical distance, side by side. One variable changed between the two frames and nothing else. Same lens, same time of day, no colour grading difference negative: beauty filter, airbrushed skin, plastic skin, waxy skin, over-smoothed, perfectly symmetrical face, extra fingers, malformed hands, warped jewellery, text artifacts, watermark, logo on clothing, duplicate person, changing facial structure, clear skin, freckles removed, clear skin seed: 442759732 | guidance: 3.5 | steps: 28
Seedream
A matched pair of photographs of a man, late twenties, Northern European features, a long face with a high forehead, grey-blue hooded eyes, feathered brows, a slightly upturned nose, a thinner upper lip, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, ear-length curly copper red hair, fair skin, heavily freckled, tall with a lean build. Wearing heavy cotton workwear, an earth-tone palette of clay, moss and rust, in a cluttered workshop bench, warm practical lamps in frame, camera at eye level. Identical framing, identical light, identical distance, side by side. One variable changed between the two frames and nothing else. Same lens, same time of day, no colour grading difference Keep identical: a man, late twenties, Northern European features, a long face with a high forehead, grey-blue hooded eyes, feathered brows, a slightly upturned nose, a thinner upper lip, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, ear-length curly copper red hair, fair skin, heavily freckled, tall with a lean build Change only: [the one thing that changes in this shot]
Used by
Flat lay
Directly above a surface, objects arranged with generous spacing
An open notebook filling two-thirds of frame, pen and one prop alongside
A complete outfit laid out as if worn, shot from directly above
The back of a forearm filling the frame, three swatches drawn across it
A single printed page on a plain surface, square crop, page filling the frame
A folded map on a table, 2:3 vertical crop, edges cropped out
Two cards side by side on a dark surface, square crop