AI exploration part 3

So, last time I started with outpainting, close ups, fashion, gelled lighting, black and white portraits. I specified 10mm, but it didn’t really get fisheye like. Maybe I need to do both, and specify fish eye? Also what happens if I add ‘reaching towards camera’?

Studio close up of a beautiful 20 year old woman reaching towards camera, black and white, Sigma ART 10mm f/1.4 100iso, dramatic lighting, fish eye lens

I really, really hoped this image would include a hand reaching to the camera, but its definitely more fish eye. I don’t actually think the focal length gives it a look, like at all. It might be helping find professionally tiered images.

Photo of slim 20 year old girl, LEDs visor helmet, profile pose, high detail, studio, smoke, cyberpunk, 85mm Sigma Art lens, in the style of Martin Schoeller

I am disappointed to see almost no Martin Schoeller influence here.

Studio portrait of beautiful 20 year old woman, machine cables coming out of neck, eyes shut, dramatic red light, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, fog

I was hoping to get something a little more matrixy out of this, but these are interesting.

Rewording my prompt to: Studio portrait of beautiful 20 year old cybernetic woman , eyes shut, dramatic red light, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, fog, david bowie inspired makeup

I really hope the David bowie makeup pulls through.

I am really loving this, but I don’t see any David bowie in it, except the models became more androgenic. And no makeup that I see.

Studio portrait of beautiful 20 year old woman touching her face, profile shot, high key butterfly lighting, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, david bowie inspired makeup

Loving it. It doesn’t know what butterfly lighting is, so I’ll have to work on this.

Studio portrait of beautiful 20 year old woman looking straight into camera, single light from above, shadow under nose, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, david bowie inspired makeup

It’s not quite getting the lighting how I want it (just to remind you, this is butterfly lighting, so if you know how to describe that, send me an email please!) Makeup is getting more interesting.

31 credits left as of writing, still a lot to go. Let’s see how it handles locations.

Beautiful 20 year old woman smoking a cigarette in a bathroom, on-camera flash, Sigma 105mm F/2.8

Hmm, not quite. I think I want them a bit more dishevelled, and more dramatic lighting to invoke Nan Goldin.

dishevelled 20 year old woman laying on a bed smoking a cigarette in a bedroom, dramatic lighting, Sigma 105mm F/2.

Interesting. Almost Nan goldin, but it feels snapshot to me.

Photograph of a beautiful 20 year old woman, fashion photography, wet hair, rain, standing on a rooftop, cyberpunk city, futuristic city, sigma 105mm, f/1.2, 100 iso

Starting to not be good in the face, though I love the third one, minus the woman.

but let’s try a few more locations just to see how it handles landscapes without people.

Landscape photo of a foggy field with a single tree two thirds from the left.

I want to make a castle similar to zelda.

Landscape photograph, Sigma 30mm F/11 100 iso, gothic castle, iron age, mystical, mythical, magical, clear skies, sunlight, clifftop, holy light, hyper realistic, kingdom, fairy, earthly, 4k, highly detailed, peaceful, beautiful, Hyrule

Okay, so Midjourney is much more fantasy/epic than Dalle, good to know.

Studio portrait of beautiful pale 20 year old woman, avant-garde fashion, high key lighting, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, white outfit, white background

Oh boy, it did NOT like avant garde.

Studio portrait of beautiful pale 20 year old woman, vogue fashion, high key lighting, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, white outfit, white background

Okay, kinda interesting but that’s more over exposed than high key. Also, I want a more eccentric outfit, but I’ll forget about that for now. Also sticking wide angle just to see what happens.

Editorial vogue fashion of beautiful 20-year-old woman, fashion, dramatic low key lighting, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, dark outfit, dark background, wide angle lens

(though I realized I used fashion twice)

I am loving the fashion, especially in the last two, and vogue definitely gives it more interesting poses. The second one is far too bright, and the first one has a bad face.

I want to see how the AI handles backlighting, so I am going to modify an old prompt I liked.

Photo of a slim girl, 20 years old, side profile, close up, high detail, studio, Back lighting, grunge fashion, smoking a cigarette, cigarette smoke, Sigma 105mm F/2.8

I love shots of Lindsay Adler, especially when she does close up of lips with beauty lighting. Let’s see what that gets me.

Extreme close up of female lips, 20 year old woman, bright red lipstick, beauty lighting, studio, slight snarl, teeth, Sigma 105mm, F/1.8, 100 iso

I’m not really sure what I expected, but this was not a successful vision. I wanted a snarl kinda like David Bowie does.

Let’s see if I can shape the light, Adler style.

Studio portrait of beautiful 20 year old woman, eyes shut, narrow cheekbones, narrow light in the shape of a square on the subject’s eyes, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, fog

Not what I pictured, but cool. I would love to have the face under exposed, but exposed properly on the face.

Studio portrait of beautiful 20 year old woman, narrow cheekbones, ponytail,  face is underexposed, eyes are lit, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, fog

It’s really struggling to understand me. These look poorly lit because I specified under exposed, but I wanted a blotch of light hitting the face, cut with cookies.

Studio portrait of beautiful 20 year old woman, narrow cheekbones, light pink hair, pink background, pink makeup, pink dress, narrow light in the shape of a square on the subject’s eyes, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, fog, analogous colour scheme 

(I discovered it can do schemes in the makeup section, I’ve been writing this out of order).

It’s funny, I don’t think I changed too much from the prompt from earlier, but it really removed the dramatic/low key lighting.

I want to do something like medusa before I run out of credits, so let me try this…

Studio portrait of beautiful 20 year old woman, narrow cheekbones, snakes for hair, pink background, pink makeup, pink dress, narrow light in the shape of a square on the subject’s eyes, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, fog, analogous colour scheme, dramatic lighting

I’m surprised it ignores snakes entirely.

Editorial fashion photography, Beautiful 20 year old woman in a reflective outfit, LEDs visor helmet, blue glowing orb hovering over her outreached hand, white studio, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso

The orb didn’t work too good.

Editorial fashion photography, Beautiful 20 year old woman in a reflective outfit, LEDs visor helmet, dramatic red light, studio, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, vogue fashion

Editorial fashion photography, Beautiful 20 year old woman in a reflective outfit, hand painted background, pastel light, studio, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, vogue fashion, hands outreached

Well, that lost the drama.

Editorial fashion photography, Beautiful 20 year old woman in a reflective outfit, dramatic light, studio, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, vogue fashion, hands outreached, fish eye lens, muted tones

Interesting how the fish eye mostly (mostly) accurately warps the body.

Editorial fashion photography, Beautiful 20 year old woman, dramatic light, studio, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso, grunge fashion, hands outreached, muted tones

Final one: Beautiful 20 year old woman, short hairstyle, sitting beside window drinking wine, Sigma 105mm F1.4 100 iso

I don’t know why, but this prompt was really repetitive. I guess I should have expected that.

See you in part 4: cosmetics and food.