Yesterday was the coronation of King Charles III and I was up early watching the proceedings. After all my years involved with the Royal Canadian Legion where I often had to set up ceremonies and parades on an infinitely smaller scale than yesterday, I’m fascinated watching events like the Coronation.
I watch it streamed on my computer and view it on my 24” monitor. Towards the end as the parade was making its way to Buckingham Palace, little Ms Hobo apparently grew impatient at my attention being on something other than her. Thus the imae in the header of her standing between me and the monitor.
Yesterday evening I decided to use the image to play around with the /describe command in Midjourney. It scans an image to attempt to describe it in text with often intersting results. It returns four possible descriptions and I can do a ‘reroll’ to have it scan additional times.
Let’s have a look at some of the results I got.
Description #1: on the computer monitor, in the style of meticulous military scenes, mischievous feline motif, webcam photography, school of london, grandeur of scale, precisionist, orderly arrangements --ar 136:95
Description #2: the computer monitor behind the cat, in the style of meticulous military scenes, english countryside, maximalist, british topographical, queencore, webcam photography, associated press photo --ar 136:95
Description #3: cat sitting on desk, in the style of meticulous military scenes, webcam photography, sophie anderson, guo pei, close up, robert irwin, patriotic --ar 136:95
Description #4: a black cat, in the style of meticulous military scenes, webcam photography, kent monkman, guo pei, patriotic, toyen, mirrored --ar 136:95
Description #5: the cat is looking at the screen, in the style of meticulous military scenes, queencore, associated press photo, english major, spiky mounds, orderly symmetry, voigtlander bessa r2m --ar 136:95
One of the elements I look at when I have MJ describe an image is the terms it uses. I’ve picked up a few additional style elements I’d not found before while doing this. There are some these descriptions gave me:
- webcam photography
- grandeur of scale
- precisionist
- orderly arrangements
- maximalist
- british topographical
- queencore
- english major
- spiky mounds
- orderly symmetry
What do those elements do? I have no idea. At some point when I’m experimenting I will try them out in prompts and see what differences I get.
I came across applecore recently and tried that out in some prompts. I found it would give me images which included apples or apple cores. I’ve noticed ‘core’ applied to several terms in descriptions, like ‘queencore’ here. I’ll play around with them to learn how to use them.
Midjourney, like most generative art applications has a vast store of knowledge. The challenge is learning how to access it through crafting better prompts. Be curious and try out the unexpected.
Shadowspub writes on a variety of subjects as she pursues her passion for learning. She also writes on other platforms and enjoys creating books you use like journals, notebooks, coloring books etc. Her Nicheless Narrative podcast airs on Thursdays each week.
NOTE: unless otherwise stated, all images are the author’s.
Some of the image work may have been done in Midjourney for which I hold a licence to use the imges commercially.
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