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Overhead Smartphone Selfie with Black Cat

A highly technical image generation prompt focused on simulating a high-angle, plunging overhead selfie taken with a smartphone camera. The prompt meticulously defines camera failure modes (highlight clipping, chroma noise), lens distortion (mild barrel), and computational photography effects (skin smoothing, sharpening halos) to maximize physical realism and mimic a specific aesthetic, featuring a woman and a black cat.

Prompt

{
  "intent": {
    "image_type": "selfie",
    "era_preset": "modern_standard",
    "notes": "Maximizing physical realism by defining light-material interaction and sensor failure modes."
  },
  "subjects": {
    "count": 1,
    "primary": {
      "type": "person",
      "age_range": "20-25",
      "gender_presentation": "female",
      "region_target": "unspecified",
      "expression": "neutral, looking up",
      "pose": "looking directly into camera from below",
      "gaze": "looking into lens"
    },
    "additional": [
      {
        "type": "black cat",
        "position": "floor level, looking up",
        "material": "dense organic fur with translucent whiskers"
      }
    ]
  },
  "framing_and_perspective": {
    "framing": "high_angle_plunging",
    "subject_fill_ratio": 0.82,
    "camera_angle": "directly_overhead_downward",
    "distance": "arm_length",
    "camera_class": "smartphone_front",
    "lens_equiv_mm": 24,
    "distortion": {
      "type": "mild_barrel",
      "strength_1to5": 4
    },
    "perspective_effects": {
      "foreground_scale_emphasis_1to5": 5,
      "nose_emphasis_1to5": 3,
      "ear_recession_1to5": 4
    },
    "depth_of_field": {
      "mode": "minimal",
      "strength_1to5": 2,
      "focus_target": "eyes"
    }
  },
  "lighting_and_exposure": {
    "key_light": {
      "type": "overhead_panel",
      "direction": "top_down",
      "hardness_1to5": 5,
      "halo_bloom_1to5": 2
    },
    "exposure_behavior": {
      "auto_exposure": true,
      "hdr_tone_mapping_1to5": 4,
      "overall_brightness_1to5": 5,
      "contrast_1to5": 3,
      "shadow_depth_1to5": 2,
      "highlight_overflow_1to5": 5
    },
    "failure_modes_active": {
      "highlight_clipping": true,
      "shadow_chroma_noise": true,
      "denoise_smear": false,
      "sharpen_halos": true,
      "motion_blur": false,
      "jpeg_ringing_banding": false,
      "banding_in_gradients": false,
      "focus_falloff_edge_softness": true
    }
  },
  "computational_pipeline": {
    "skin_smoothing": {
      "method": "edge_aware",
      "strength_1to5": 2,
      "specular_preservation": "required"
    },
    "sharpening": {
      "strength_1to5": 3,
      "halo_risk_1to5": 2
    },
    "noise_and_denoise": {
      "shadow_chroma_noise_1to5": 3,
      "denoise_smear_1to5": 2,
      "grain_strength_1to5": 2
    },
    "compression": {
      "jpeg_artifacts_1to5": 1,
      "banding_risk_1to5": 1
    },
    "white_balance": {
      "mode": "auto",
      "highlight_temp_bias": "cool",
      "shadow_temp_bias": "neutral"
    }
  },
  "region_and_face_feature_sliders": {
    "non_stereotype_policy": "sliders_over_labels",
    "beauty_mark_under_right_eye": false,
    "sliders_1to5": {
      "face_oval_vline_1to5": 3,
      "cheekbone_prominence_1to5": 3,
      "brow_definition_1to5": 3,
      "eye_emphasis_1to5": 4,
      "eyelid_crease_definition_1to5": 3,
      "nose_bridge_definition_1to5": 3,
      "lip_fullness_1to5": 3,

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Author
Emily
Updated
Jan 18, 2026
Source
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License

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