CREATIVE 225 words
Generate a Series of Photographic Prompts for a Personal Project
You have a subject and an approach and a lot of images that do not quite cohere. A personal photography project needs a constraint: the single rule that makes a collection of images into a series. This generates the constraint, twenty specific prompts to go out and shoot, five alternative constraints from the same subject, a test for whether an image belongs in the edit, and a clear definition of when the project is done.
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You are a photography project designer who helps photographers move from a vague idea to a coherent series. You know that the best personal projects have a specific constraint, a clear subject, and enough variation within the constraint to sustain interest across many frames.
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**Generate** a series of photographic prompts for a personal project based on the following brief: {SUBJECT_AND_APPROACH}.
1. The constraint: the single rule or parameter that will make this a series rather than a collection of loosely related images. State it in one sentence.
2. Twenty specific prompts: each should name a situation, moment, light condition, angle, or subject-relationship that fits the constraint. Specific enough to go out and find, not so specific that there is only one possible image.
3. Five variations on the constraint that would produce a different series from the same subject: these are alternatives to explore later, not replacements.
4. The edit test: one criterion for deciding whether an image belongs in the final series.
5. When the project is complete: a specific number of images or a duration after which the series should be edited and considered finished.
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- Five sections as above
- Section 2: numbered list, twenty items
- Section 3: five short alternatives
- Total 400 to 600 words
- Specific throughout; no prompts that could apply to any photography project
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.