Outstanding!! Very creative - you must have put a lot into the prompts. 
I swerved from portals right into,
Pop-up advertising using sora to greet people into whole other worlds.
I got lots of amazing sora pictures today but I believe that’s off topic?
So here’s one more out of the threads project.
This one was a struggle…took quite a bit of messing with the prompt. I swear DALL-E was being sarcastic at one point.
Final prompt: “Photorealistic image, 1920x1080. Scene: A vine with exactly 6 detailed moonflowers blooming at night. One large moonflower is close to the viewer, with 5 others at medium and far distances. The moonflowers must be distinct and in varying degrees of sharpness—some soft focus is acceptable but NOT blurry or obscured. Fireflies: exactly 12 visible fireflies, all clearly defined with bodies, wings, and glowing tails. DO NOT render fireflies as glowing dots or orbs. NO BOKEH. All fireflies must be visible as small insects with glowing light, not just abstract light spots. Background is dark and naturalistic. Maximalist detail in flower texture, vine tendrils, and insect anatomy.”
@polepole you continue to be the best at this. The chef cracking open the sun was something, and the “double exposure” pic was tops. Great work. Thanks for sharing the prompts.
I had an experience lately where my dentist gave me a stern talking to and I thought I’d capture it in an image.
When I was prompting, I stopped the image generation half way, or closed the window or something, but I got this ultra-cool error where I got to see the image “sketch” GPT was building:
Cool right? Like pointillism. I’ve never known it to stop half way like this and still produce something.
Here’s more what my experience was like, lol:
Nothing like getting morally demolished by your dentist.
Prompt-1
A wide-format, photorealistic mural painted on a modern city façade.
Scene : adult men stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a perfectly straight line, evenly spaced, facing forward. All wear identical tailored navy-blue suits, white dress shirts, and matching navy ties. Their expressions are serious and trance-like. Each man’s eyes display vivid turquoise-and-emerald spiral glyphs, clearly indicating deep hypnosis.
Foreground focus : centred in front of them, an ornate vintage pocket watch with a white Roman-numeral face and intricate silver casing swings on a thin gold chain. The watch is caught mid-motion, left-to-right, with a subtle blurred motion-trail. The chain hangs from just above the frame, illuminated by soft overhead lighting.
Lighting & Mood : dramatic, moody spotlights highlight the men’s faces and the watch, casting subtle shadows on their suits and on the dark matte backdrop. The surrounding wall is a seamless black mural field that fades into shadow at the edges.
Style : ultra-realistic, high-resolution painted mural; texture of the masonry still visible beneath the pigment.
Colour palette : navy blue, off-white/ivory, silver, gold, emerald green, turquoise, rich black.
Camera : wide frontal shot, eye-level, 3 : 2 landscape (1536 × 1024 px).
Include a thin masonry border around the mural, realistic sidewalk base, and a couple of small pedestrian silhouettes to emphasise scale.
Prompt-2
A wide-format, photorealistic mural painted on a modern city façade.
Scene: a colossal orange-red octopus emerges from violent, stormy twilight waves, stepping onto a deserted urban beach. The octopus has a sly grin and intelligent, gleaming eyes. Adult businesspeople in modern dark suits stand in a perfectly straight line in front of it, evenly spaced, stiffly upright like puppets. Each of the octopus’s tentacles holds a noose tightly fastened around their necks. Their eyes glow with spiraling glyphs, indicating full hypnosis and mind control.
Foreground focus: the octopus’s enormous tentacles are slightly wet and glistening, detailed with lifelike texture and gripping the hypnotized figures with tension. Bits of shattered digital forum icons (speech bubbles, comment boxes, broken ‘like’ symbols) rain down diagonally from the dramatic sky, rendered as high-contrast debris.
Lighting & Mood: dramatic twilight glow from the stormy sky backlights the clouds, while side lighting from the setting sun casts warm highlights and deep shadows across the octopus, the waves, and the marionette-like businesspeople. The atmosphere is eerie, cinematic, and full of ominous tension.
Style: ultra-realistic, high-resolution painted mural; texture of the masonry still visible beneath the pigment.
Colour palette: orange-red, charcoal gray, muted silver, navy blue, off-white, emerald green, turquoise, golden-hour amber, rich black.
Camera: wide frontal shot, eye-level, 3:2 landscape (1536 × 1024 px).
Include a thin masonry border around the mural, a realistic concrete sidewalk base, and a couple of small silhouetted pedestrians walking past to emphasize the massive scale of the artwork.
Original Photo:
“Have A Cigar”
Using the new input_fidelity = “high” parameter for the GPT Image 1 edits endpoint.
This is the original photo prompted to modify such that “..the woman is smoking a cigar…”
Icarus and his father Daedalus.
