The sun is almost set, so grab those last warm rays while you can. With deep lilac skies and the first hint of starlight overhead, hopefully the photographer brought the bounce light reflector.

Technical Note:

It took a bit of convincing to get Stable Diffusion to create beach photos that aren’t “high noon” lighting. Photographically speaking, the term for this type of light is “blue hour,” but adding that to a prompt just makes everything blue. The trick I landed on was to use regional prompting. Create a skinny column that’s 10% of the frame, and set the background there by itself with the help of a low-light lora. Then use the other 90% of the frame for the subject. This keeps the “blue hour” description from influencing clothing and hair colors. IE: (dune grass, pre-dawn morning twilight light, (blue hour:1.5) <lora:LowRA:.5> ADDCOL)

Programming Note:

Thanks to everyone that pointed out the issues with albums in the prior post. I figured out the markdown required to host jpgs here on LemmyNSFW, but still links to the original PNGs on catbox.moe. Hopefully things work better for everyone and the various mobile apps. Let me know if you have issues. ♥️

  • @[email protected]English
    7•1 year ago

    You might have had more luck using the term “golden hour.” That’s always how I’ve heard it.

    • CavendishOPEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      Golden hour is an entirely different lighting situation.

      Golden hour is just after sunrise or before sunset, when the sun is above the horizon. Blue hour is when the sun is below the horizon, after sunset or before sunrise.

  • @ChipthensfwMonkEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Very nice work. With regional prompting, I wasn’t sure that Lora’s would apply only to the specified region but I guess it’s working for you.

    Apart from one image having a bad hand distortion, the images are quite stunning. At times, the nipples look a little off too, but only on a few of the photos. The faces are quite remarkable.

    • CavendishOPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Thanks! I haven’t quite got the hang of inpainting yet, it’s on the list for nipple adjustments. I try and bury the hands in sand/hair/clothes though, those things are always nasty to deal with.

      • @ChipthensfwMonkEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Yeah, it will be nice when AI manages to generate convincing hands. It’s amazing how many poses you can get with them hidden though.

        • CavendishOPEnglish
          4•1 year ago

          Feels like cheating. I have high hopes for the newer 1024x1024 SDXL models

  • @mrgreyeyesEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    The one in blue is the clear winner.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 year ago

    Just wanted to confirm that the album is working and thanks for the change. Really great work.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    I would have to check myself, but I believe “cool tones”, “cool lighting”, or “cool grading” might get the look you are shooting for. I’m impressed by how well you got the Downblouse lora to behave. Which one are you using because I have been fighting with it all night and I haven’t gotten anything half that good?

    • CavendishOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I’ll play around with those prompts. Thanks for the suggestions.

      The lora I’m using is called ‘downblouse (for boobs)’. I’m not sure that the parenthetical was necessary in the naming, but thats what its listed as.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        Thanks, I will have to try that. I got good results for tonal shifting using ‘cool tones’ and ‘cool color grading’ in i2i with a tile controlnet. Just don’t use the colorfix presamplers.