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A city poster, and text that actually rendered
A Boston spring poster with a sculler's wake turning into the Charles. Two lines of typography came back clean, which almost never happens.
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The prompt that is really a reply
The shortest prompt in the collection, and the first that comes in two parts — the second of which is not a prompt at all, but a follow-up that edits the first.
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Low-angle fashion portrait, 24mm
Ground-level 24mm full-body fashion portrait against open sky, Korean outdoor fashion look. Needs a reference image for the composition.
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Bedroom portrait, soft window light
Soft-light bedroom portrait in white lace, over-the-shoulder composition, Japanese lifestyle style. What holds across runs and what varies.
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The shortest prompt here, and what it leaves out
Twenty-three words describing a gesture, a room and a brand, and nothing else. What a prompt this short still needs, and where to put the aspect ratio.
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Double-exposure studio beauty portrait
A studio beauty portrait with the subject's own face faded in behind her. What holds across two runs, what drifts, and the aspect ratio it ignores.
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One prompt, two runs, and what held
I have started keeping the AI image prompts that actually work. This one was run twice and produced two different photographs — here is what survived the second roll.
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A prompt that measures itself in degrees
An overhead selfie prompt specified to the degree: hips 12 degrees, shoulders 8, head tilted 28. What that precision actually buys.
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Ao dai on a wooden veranda, and an invented seal
Two runs of a prompt that was not kept. What survives anyway, and the red artist's seal one of them signed itself with.
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A prompt written like a spec sheet
The second prompt in the collection runs 430 words across nine paragraphs and barely argues with anything. What that precision buys, and what it quietly costs.