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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
Overhead photograph of a man, late twenties, East African features, an oval face, dark brown deep-set eyes, thick straight brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a single dark mole high on the right cheekbone, cropped short tightly coiled jet black hair, deep brown skin, a matte finish, average height with a lean build. Wearing plain unbranded basics, a monochrome palette of black, white and grey, in a desk setup lit by monitor light, warm practical lamps in frame, camera at eye level. Two cards side by side on a dark surface, square crop. Cards aligned, a finger resting between them. Hard directional light, strong card shadows, no reflections --ar 16:9 --style raw --seed 1631018323 --cref [url of your approved reference frame] --cw 100
Flux
Overhead photograph of a man, late twenties, East African features, an oval face, dark brown deep-set eyes, thick straight brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a single dark mole high on the right cheekbone, cropped short tightly coiled jet black hair, deep brown skin, a matte finish, average height with a lean build. Wearing plain unbranded basics, a monochrome palette of black, white and grey, in a desk setup lit by monitor light, warm practical lamps in frame, camera at eye level. Two cards side by side on a dark surface, square crop. Cards aligned, a finger resting between them. Hard directional light, strong card shadows, no reflections 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, retouched cheek, oily highlight seed: 1631018323 | guidance: 3.5 | steps: 28
Seedream
Overhead photograph of a man, late twenties, East African features, an oval face, dark brown deep-set eyes, thick straight brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a single dark mole high on the right cheekbone, cropped short tightly coiled jet black hair, deep brown skin, a matte finish, average height with a lean build. Wearing plain unbranded basics, a monochrome palette of black, white and grey, in a desk setup lit by monitor light, warm practical lamps in frame, camera at eye level. Two cards side by side on a dark surface, square crop. Cards aligned, a finger resting between them. Hard directional light, strong card shadows, no reflections Keep identical: a man, late twenties, East African features, an oval face, dark brown deep-set eyes, thick straight brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a single dark mole high on the right cheekbone, cropped short tightly coiled jet black hair, deep brown skin, a matte finish, average height with a lean build Change only: [the one thing that changes in this shot]
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@samexplainsspecs
What a spec sheet is hiding, translated into what you will feel
@yukibuildsdesks
Desk setups costed properly, including the ones that were a mistake
@leoreadspatches
Patch notes read properly, so you know what actually changed
@marcuscoststoown
The five-year cost of the car, not the price on the windscreen
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
Identical framing, identical light, identical distance, side by side
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