Cinematic still with weights and a negative prompt
Positive prompt, negative prompt and sane starting settings for SDXL-family checkpoints.
Positive prompt: [SUBJECT AND ACTION], [SETTING], (detailed face:1.2), natural skin texture, cinematic lighting, rim light, volumetric haze, 35mm photograph, shallow depth of field, high dynamic range, sharp focus, muted colour grade Negative prompt: blurry, lowres, jpeg artifacts, deformed hands, extra fingers, extra limbs, distorted face, cross-eyed, text, watermark, logo, oversaturated, plastic skin, cartoon, 3d render Starting settings (SDXL-family checkpoint in ComfyUI, Forge or AUTOMATIC1111): 1024x1024, or 832x1216 for portrait; sampler DPM++ 2M Karras; 28 steps; CFG 6. Keep the seed fixed while you iterate on wording, then upscale 1.5x with hires fix at 0.35 denoise.