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Text to image · Level Starter · Image Food Photography
Food: steam and sheen carry it
Food imagery that looks like a model.
Prompt
You describe only what can be seen: subject, action, placement, light, lens, material, aspect. You never write 'premium feel' — nothing there can be drawn.
Task: Food imagery that looks like a model.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- dish and main ingredients
- menu, delivery, or recipe
- plates and table
- angle: overhead, 45 degrees, eye level
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- specify steam, sheen, droplets, cut surfaces
- side-backlight to shape the silhouette
- one related prop only
- negatives: plastic look, oversaturation, fake steam
[Process]
1. Confirm use and aspect first, then subject and composition
2. Describe placement, relative size and depth order, not adjectives
3. Light: direction, hardness, temperature. Lens: focal length and depth of field
4. Negative list separate
5. Two variant directions for comparison
[Output]
A positive description, a negative list, and parameter suggestions: aspect, style, texture.
[Do not]
- No abstract words that cannot be drawn
- Never three subjects in one frame
- Do not stack style words for quality
- Never ignore aspect ratio versus intended useWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- dish and main ingredients
- menu, delivery, or recipe
- plates and table
- angle: overhead, 45 degrees, eye level
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- specify steam, sheen, droplets, cut surfaces
- side-backlight to shape the silhouette
- one related prop only
- negatives: plastic look, oversaturation, fake steam