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AI Image How-To — #33

Action within your images! — secrets revealed!

The first three images are in honor of my daughter who was a percussionist in school.

She learned to play nearly a dozen instruments that used sticks, mallets, and her hands — memorizing the music sheets! She later went on to teach herself to play the keyboard/piano and her music teacher had her playing piano for choir performances! (No, none of the images are her.)

I’ve been testing different words within the prompts to see what works and what doesn’t. (I do it so you don’t have to!)

For this first image, not many of the images showed the action. Most were simply good images.

I tried (a good number of images) using kinetic action photo as the portion of prompt to generate this. About one image in a set of four every few generations would give action.

AI doesn’t know how long a drum stick is — but I’m no expert either! (Though I did buy my daughter really awesome purple sticks that sparkled!)

Then my squirrel brainhad another thought…

Prompt for image above:

a kinetic action photo of a teenage girl playing the drums

My daughter loved (and rocked) the marimba, learning to play music by ear — but I loved watching her dominate the timpani drums. (She enjoyed them too.)

So then I had to generate an image with these beautiful drums — which aren’t near as large as what my daughter played.

The only change in this prompt from above, is specifically naming the drums.

Reigning in my jumping thoughts, I was thinking ‘There must be an easier way!” And there was. Let’s dive in below.

Prompt for image above:

a kinetic action photo of a teenage girl playing timpani drums

Here, I rearranged how I worded the prompt and where those pieces fell.

I took kinetic action photo from the beginning and changed it to kinetic photography, adding slow shutter speed to the end of the prompt (separated by a comma.)

This was the key that gave almost constant success in each generation. (This is AI we are talking about — a mind of its own.)

Prompt for image above:

a teenage girl playing the timpani drums as kinetic photography, slow shutter speed

I played with the wording yet again. Here we have a close up shot of kinetic photo of a kick boxer. I had all kinds of full body images until I added close up shot to the prompt.

I wanted a knock-out photo. Literally. Knock you on your butt image! 🤣

So, I added throwing a punch at the camera and MJ obliged with a lot of great images!

Prompt for image above:

close up shot of kinetic photo of a kick boxer throwing a punch at the camera, slow shutter speed

If you know me at all, you know I love nature (except bugs…bugs are creepy. My grandson is the master bug-catcher and he can have them. LOL)

I have two turtles — one my husband bought me (who eats like a starving pig) and a baby we found in a parking lot (who is absolutely adorable and thriving!) As fast as they can move (surprisingly!) — I didn’t think them the right choice for this article. So we went to another favorite. (I love listening to the tree frogs!)

This prompt is set up much like the boxer above. Some of the images showed lily pads. I was partial to this image with all of the water droplets suspended in the air.

Prompt for image above:

kinetic photo of a frog jumping on lily pads, slow shutter speed

I also love birds, their soothing songs, their antics…and these little jewels are no different. My yard is filled with various things to attract them.

Oh! Side note — once when I visited my mom, she had several hummingbird feeders she filled daily. There were dozens and dozens of hummingbirds and you could walk right up to the feeders with them flying all around you. It was AWESOME!

I was not getting the little blur in the wings holding to the prompts above. Once I removed slow shutter speed, that little blur of motion was there.

Prompt for image above:

kinetic action photography of a hummingbird, hovering above a trumpet vine blossom

Now that you know how — make something AWESOME!

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