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Process content where the process is the star. Cropping the face out at the top is a deliberate compositional choice in this genre, not an evasion.
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 Craft & making, Home & interiors and Cars & motoring. 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
Video 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. Bench-height, hands and torso, camera at forty-five degrees from the left. Working on one component, tool in hand, face out of frame at the top. Warm practical work light, sawdust and clutter, shallow background --ar 9:16 --style raw --seed 442759732 --cref [url of your approved reference frame] --cw 100
Flux
Video 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. Bench-height, hands and torso, camera at forty-five degrees from the left. Working on one component, tool in hand, face out of frame at the top. Warm practical work light, sawdust and clutter, shallow background 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
Video 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. Bench-height, hands and torso, camera at forty-five degrees from the left. Working on one component, tool in hand, face out of frame at the top. Warm practical work light, sawdust and clutter, shallow background 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]
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@danfixesrentals
Reversible fixes for flats you are not allowed to drill into
@wrenmendsit
Visible mending, taught stitch by stitch, no sewing machine
@marcuscoststoown
The five-year cost of the car, not the price on the windscreen
Demonstration
Hands and the working surface only, camera at forty-five degrees
Chest up, mirror behind, camera fixed at eye height
Full body in profile, camera fixed at hip height, three metres back
Directly above a hob, pan centred, hands entering from the bottom of frame
Directly above a work surface, hands and material only
Directly above a desk, notes and a hand holding a pen
Full-frame screen content, persona in a small inset in one corner