Camera Angles + CREF in Midjourney (1)

Purposeful Prompting to Get the Results You Want, While Taking a Look at Camera Angles and Compositions & Maintaining Character Consistency (whew!)

I will return to the book, but wanted to talk about something that some of you may be struggling with in your prompting. Desired Results.

Often in teaching something, the goal is to explain it to the person we were and the mindset we had - before we learned it. When I am prompting with AI - like… just last night - there are times that I can judge the successfulness of prompting based on the results obtained. That makes sense - right?

I mean, if I ask for Midjourney to give me a specific image, and 4 for 4 of the images are exactly what I asked for - I feel confident that I was perfectly clear in what I asked for, that I worded it just right. After all, the results speak to that request done well. But, I can create a prompt and see 1 or 2 of the 4 renders that is close to what I had imagined - and feel like I failed in my attempt. (I am my own worst critic).

I want to put this out there, because there may be someone else like me - who can view their success as failure, because you are not getting 100% results from a prompt request. But rethink this (like I have to). Typically, I am only using 1 of the results. If you get 1 result, or even a step towards the desired result - then THAT is success!

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I envisioned a young African man of 35, with an African patterned print tunic, great hair and a brilliant smile. Here is the prompt I started with…