Overhead Smartphone Selfie with Black Cat AI Image Prompt

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,

How to use this prompt

Copy the prompt above and paste it into an AI image generator such as Google Gemini (Nano Banana) or a similar tool. Replace any bracketed placeholders with your own details, then generate and refine the result.

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