Create a direct-flash portrait study
Use a hard cast shadow and frontal highlights to describe direct flash.
What to provide
- A permitted subject description. This example was generated from text only, without a reference image.
Example Recorded test output
Input
Create a square photorealistic portrait of one fictional adult woman wearing a simple rust-colored jacket standing a short distance in front of a plain pale-gray wall. Use small on-camera direct flash: crisp frontal highlights, a clearly defined cast shadow just behind the subject and a darkened peripheral background. Frame from waist up, one person, relaxed pose, hands out of frame, natural skin and fabric texture. No beauty retouching, celebrity likeness, text, logos or watermark. This is a generated lighting illustration, not a real flash test.
Output
The rust jacket and natural face texture are visible against a plain gray wall. A crisp shadow behind the head and shoulder and frontal highlights make the flash direction clear.
Tool settings
One text-to-image run; 1254 x 1254 PNG. Opaque background. Codex built-in image_gen; model name, seed and quality control not exposed by the tool.
Improve the result
- Untested variation: change one visible detail in a new request, then inspect the complete output again.
Use this example
Use a hard cast shadow and frontal highlights to describe direct flash.
Keep the default subject to follow the recorded input. Changing it may require edits to other scene-specific details in the complete prompt.
What was reviewed
The rust jacket and natural face texture are visible against a plain gray wall. A crisp shadow behind the head and shoulder and frontal highlights make the flash direction clear.
This is a generated lighting study, not a measured flash output or a real portrait session.
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