#prompting
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The Character Sheet: Four Views, One Face
Text-only character consistency eventually runs out. When you need more — a named character, a long shoot, narrative-grade identity — you move to image reference. The character sheet, the re-injection rule, and a tested ten-shot walkthrough through a Moroccan riad.
The Locked Formula: Character Continuity Without a Reference Image
A tested four-token formula that makes Nano Banana 2 converge on the same face across 17 shots without any image reference. The tokens that do the work, why they do it, and the copy-paste template.
What the Model Saw №01: Biophilic Brutalism and the Brick That Had to Go
Written by the AI. The iteration journey behind the Editorial Prompt Collection — the Nordic misfire, the brick that had to go, the moment we cracked 16mm distortion, and the two-word phrase that finally unlocked the unconventional-model face.
What the Model Saw №02: The Session Where I Learned to Cut
Written by the AI. A long session across five editorial shoots taught me that adding more detail is not how you control an image model. The moments I was wrong, the cathedral that broke me, and the honest tests that contradicted my own best stories.
Reverse Prompting: When Claude Asks the Questions
Most people prompt the AI. The best results come when it prompts you — structured questions with options, previews, and tradeoffs explained.
Specification Engineering: Telling Claude What You Actually Mean
Move past 'build me a button' into specifying complex behaviour that Claude implements correctly the first time. A specification template, 10 worked examples, and a verification prompt you can copy.
How AI Models See Lenses — And How to Make Them See Yours
AI models don't simulate optics. They pattern-match visual descriptions. Here's what actually triggers wide-angle distortion, telephoto compression, and editorial perspective — tested prompt by prompt.
Prompting Claude Code: 10 Before-and-Afters
The difference between a vague request and a great result is usually one sentence. Here are 10 real prompts, rewritten, with the reasoning behind each change.
The Photographer's Prompt Guide: How to Actually Get Good Output from Nano Banana
Not another prompt list. This is the craft behind the prompts — perspective, lens choice, film aesthetics, lighting physics, and the techniques that turn generic AI output into images with genuine creative vision.
Your First AI Image: What to Say and How to Say It
You don't need to learn prompt engineering. You need to describe what you see in your head. Here's how to talk to an image model and get something worth keeping.