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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
This shot is niche-bound: the planner only puts it in a calendar for Fashion & styling, Beauty & skincare, Sustainability and Home & interiors. A tape measure in a personal-finance calendar is the kind of plausible nonsense a generator produces when nobody models the constraint.
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
Candid photograph of a man, mid thirties, Southern European features, a square face with a strong jaw, dark brown deep-set eyes, thick straight brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a small vertical scar through the left eyebrow, cropped short wavy salt-and-pepper hair with a deep side part, olive skin, natural texture and visible pores, average height with a broad build. Wearing smart business-casual separates, an earth-tone palette of clay, moss and rust, in a small independent shop, warm practical lamps in frame, camera at eye level. Three-quarter body, shot through a rack on a 50mm at f/2.8. Reaching for something on a shelf, in profile, unaware of the camera. Mixed shop lighting, foreground rack softly out of focus --ar 9:16 --style raw --seed 1686089780 --cref [url of your approved reference frame] --cw 100
Flux
Candid photograph of a man, mid thirties, Southern European features, a square face with a strong jaw, dark brown deep-set eyes, thick straight brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a small vertical scar through the left eyebrow, cropped short wavy salt-and-pepper hair with a deep side part, olive skin, natural texture and visible pores, average height with a broad build. Wearing smart business-casual separates, an earth-tone palette of clay, moss and rust, in a small independent shop, warm practical lamps in frame, camera at eye level. Three-quarter body, shot through a rack on a 50mm at f/2.8. Reaching for something on a shelf, in profile, unaware of the camera. Mixed shop lighting, foreground rack softly out of focus 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, unblemished brow, poreless skin seed: 1686089780 | guidance: 3.5 | steps: 28
Seedream
Candid photograph of a man, mid thirties, Southern European features, a square face with a strong jaw, dark brown deep-set eyes, thick straight brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a small vertical scar through the left eyebrow, cropped short wavy salt-and-pepper hair with a deep side part, olive skin, natural texture and visible pores, average height with a broad build. Wearing smart business-casual separates, an earth-tone palette of clay, moss and rust, in a small independent shop, warm practical lamps in frame, camera at eye level. Three-quarter body, shot through a rack on a 50mm at f/2.8. Reaching for something on a shelf, in profile, unaware of the camera. Mixed shop lighting, foreground rack softly out of focus Keep identical: a man, mid thirties, Southern European features, a square face with a strong jaw, dark brown deep-set eyes, thick straight brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a small vertical scar through the left eyebrow, cropped short wavy salt-and-pepper hair with a deep side part, olive skin, natural texture and visible pores, average height with a broad build Change only: [the one thing that changes in this shot]
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