indeed! a hard life for many eagles not eating enough I am sure... Ultimately Nature is cruel to all of us.

I think that was my duck! Gone... Forever.

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are so large...

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thanks Curmudgeon

thanks kpmac

LOL, they look mean, but their is a cuteness to them yet!

my what big eyes you have

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thanks Erich, great observation - I only wish I did that consciously rather than subconsciously. The hardest thing about composites (in my opinion), is making the different parts feel like they belong together. And in this case, the center lighting and the square aspect ratio are like glue to help hold things together.

thanks Jim

LOL, I believe phrase order Does matter, but not as much as one would expect. For a full body shot, one thing to do would be to have portrait dimensions rather than landscape or square dimensions. Also, you could improve your odds by using words like standing, walking, running, etc. A really good strategy that always works is to find an image that has the composition that you desire, and then do img2img process on it using your descriptions to control what the figure looks like. Best of luck, look forward to seeing successes and some failures too - for sure it is a fun journey.

thanks - I was a least a little successful then with my post processing. I find that many AI images are difficult to improve on... (it makes me humble!)

your approach requires much greater talent. One of the things I like about integrating AI components and then running image to image is that the result seems to be very unified. An interesting workflow might be to compose as you do and then feed the results into an image-to-image process - much as one might use a filter. And then blend the results back into your original to your taste.

also notice that I use words like graphite and oil painting at the same time. The word graphite seems (to me anyway) end up producing stronger edges. And oil painting will give it a better chance to appear painterly, and if I added the words 'photo realistic' while including the others, the image would be more likely to appear more real. Unlike our world, the words used in AI do not seem to be mutually exclusive. They are a pseudo language that triggers the AI in 'muddy' ways.

I am glad that Frank called you Dave. I knew (once) that you were Dave - now my muddled head can hopefully start remembering that again. Yeah, the AI needs to be pushed and pulled like a donkey - and adding and subtracting words is what I have found to be most effective. And for a given set of words, you need to give it a fair shot to see what it does, a sample of one seldom works. And I prefer the old 1.5 model - since it still recognizes artists names and Those Words are particularly powerful.

yeah, I do not disagree with you guys. I use words to push and pull the AI along. For some reason, the way my clutter head works, I find it easier to add words than to remove words. The AI does not always seem to use all the words in a list, it seems like a probability thing. I can use the word fog and I don't always get fog. But if I use the words fog, smoke, mist - then I seem to have a higher chance to get a thick atmosphere.