Images and prompts

Sometimes Midjourney responds very well to a short paragraph, written as a story, though I rarely get what I anticipate:

A cat in a hat with blue boots, carrying a sword and grinning as he walks confidently towards a mouse, who is armed with a rusty musket 

I have both the mouse and the cat, but in separate images

Sometimes the result is nothing like what I intended:

It was as though every man had a bubble in which his head was encapsulated, each saw a different world to the other, in one the sky was orange, in another it was yellow but each and every one of them called it blue 

Other times it will just ignore parts of the prompt entirely;

The moon shone its light through the window, bathing her in its brightness, her skin was luminescent and irresistible to the foul, filthy creature which crouched at the foot of the bed

But I’ll almost always get at least one image that makes the prompt worthwhile:

The fairy had checked under the pillow for the tooth she had been sent to collect but it wasn’t there, this was the second time tonight and she couldn’t go back empty handed so she opened his mouth, grabbed hold of a tooth, and pulled with all her might 

I tried another variation of the prompt I’ve used in the last two days and I think I’ve reached the limit of creativity with it now. I’ll try some new portraits with a different photographer over the coming weeks:

a loathsome young man, wearing a pointed wizards hat with complex stars and crescent moon designs, detailed close-up, in sophisticated black and blue robes, intricate details, dark colours, porcelain doll, complex makeup, grey, white and blue puffs of smoke, studio lighting and volumetric lighting Photo taken by Chin Leong Teo, taken with a Canon EOS R with a Canon RF 35mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM lens at 1/200 sec, f/2.8 and ISO200, Award-winning photography style, 4k –v 5.1 

Here’s an old Colonel, flexing his bicep for a lady;

And that’s all there is, see you in the next one.

Cheers,

Old Man