AI Image
Before the Rain Stops
Before the Rain Stops is not about creating a perfect portrait, but about exploring whether AI can recreate the authenticity of everyday smartphone photography. By embracing ordinary locations, natural human reactions, imperfect lighting, and the subtle flaws of mobile cameras, the work shifts the focus from visual perfection to lived experience—capturing moments that feel remembered rather than manufactured.
Author: AI Plus Lab
✦Results
⌘Prompt Content
Generate a single vertical 3:4 real mobile photo. Present just one continuous scene, with no collages, grids, multi-shot images, infographics, posters, borders, watermarks, or any text styling. [Character Reference Boundaries] The person in the image is a young adult Asian woman. Only refer to the stable facial features and natural recognizability from the uploaded pictures: natural oval face, bright yet realistically sized eyes, original nose shape, natural lips, and a relaxed, slightly shy expression when smiling, along with long straight black hair. Only reference the appearance, not the dessert shop background, ice cream, wooden table, yellow seats, outfits, sitting pose, actions, lighting, or composition from the reference picture. The scene must be constructed anew in a different location, time, and context; do not replicate the original image. Maintain natural and realistic facial structure and human proportions. The figure is slim but healthy and natural, with no exaggeratedly thin waist, long legs, exaggerated curves, or model-like posture. [Clothing and Styling] She is wearing a dark gray sleeveless knit top, loose light gray draping pants, and simple everyday footwear. The clothing shows real fabric texture and natural creases, without a luxury brand advertisement feel. Approach a bare-faced look or very light makeup, avoiding heavy makeup, finely detailed contouring, or obvious filters. Her long black hair is naturally let down, with a few strands made slightly damp by rain, lightly sticking to the sides of her face, neck, and shoulders, while retaining a few unruly wisps. [Time and Setting] It's night, and it's raining. The person stands under the awning at the entrance of an ordinary residential community convenience store, the environment simple, real, and with signs of practical use, not a bustling commercial street or a meticulously designed photographic setting. The glass door of the convenience store, ordinary shelves, beverage coolers, product packaging, and interior cool white ceiling lights are clearly visible. The display is not perfectly organized, with everyday clutter and slight stains near the door. The ground outside is wet from rain, with irregularly shaped shallow puddles, shoe prints, stains, and the mixed reflections of convenience store lights and streetlights. Passing vehicles in the distance and a few umbrella-carrying pedestrians are lightly blurred by natural motion. The background retains recognizable environmental details, with no severe blur. [Action and Candid Moment] She naturally grips the handle of a transparent long-handled umbrella with one hand, the umbrella structure intact with a few realistic raindrops on the surface; in the other hand, she holds a cup with a lid, with clear and reasonable contact and force applied between her fingers and the cup. Her body initially faces the street, with natural balance, as if waiting or ready to leave under the awning. A friend calls her from behind and to the side, she has just heard the sound, with her shoulders and upper half not fully turned, naturally looking back at the camera. This is a moment in the midst of action, not a posed frontal shot. She shows a relaxed, happy, slightly shy natural smile, with eyes as if suddenly recognizing a familiar friend. The changes in her lips, around her eyes, and cheeks align with a genuine smile, no stiff expression or forced cuteness. [Mobile Shooting Style] Taken with an ordinary mobile rear camera, around 26mm equivalent wide angle, mid-shot composition, including the person's upper body down to the thighs or knees, and keeping enough of the convenience store entrance environment. Shot by a friend standing nearby, handheld, with the lens slightly below the person's eye line, and the frame slightly skewed. The person is slightly off-center, with edges possibly showing parts of the awning, glass door frame, or street pavement, conveying the feel of a snapshot. The perspective and body proportions are consistent with a regular wide-angle smartphone lens. Avoid professional photographer composition, fashion magazine poses, and intentionally cinematic effects. [Natural Environmental Lighting] The main light source comes from the cool white lights inside the convenience store, mixed with normal street lamps, rain night ambiance, and distant vehicle lights. Lighting on the person's face is natural and slightly uneven, brighter on the side closer to the store, and slightly darker on the other side. Avoid studio soft light, cinematic contour light, reflector effects, or dramatic lighting. Allow slight instability in mobile auto-exposure, with slight overexposure in the store lights and glass reflections, with slight noise in shadow areas, and natural white balance deviation between cool white lights and night colors. [Realistic Person and Image Texture] Retain realistic skin texture, slight pores, a few natural blemishes, fine expression lines, moderate oil sheen, and slight reflections caused by the wet night. No skin smoothing, porcelain white skin, or excessive sharpening. Retain damp strands of hair, knitted fabric fibers, natural clothing creases, and slight disorder in the environment. Include slight mobile night shoot noise, limited dynamic range, very slight handheld motion blur, and imperfect but mostly clear focus on the person's face and eyes. The final image looks like a life photo taken by a friend on an ordinary rainy night, unedited, and stored in a phone album: real, natural, relatable, slightly flawed, without obvious artificial generation or commercial photography feel.
✕Negative Prompt
Dessert shop, ice cream, wooden table, yellow seats, reference photo sitting pose, reference photo outfit, reference photo action, reference photo composition, replicating reference photo background; collage, grid, multi-frame, multi-scene, storyboards, infographic, poster, text, subtitles, logos, borders, watermark; minors, AI influencer face, plastic surgery face, exaggerated big eyes, sharp chin, facial feature drift, facial distortion, plastic skin, wax-like skin, excessive skin smoothing, excessive beautification, heavy makeup, pale featureless skin; stiff expressions, deliberate posing, commercial street photography, fashion shots, studio lighting, cinematic lighting, strong contour light, cyberpunk, exaggerated neon, excessive HDR, excessive color grading, professional camera cinematic quality; strong depth of field, creamy bokeh, severely blurred background; ultra-wide distortion, fisheye effect, incorrect body proportions, overly thin waist, overly long legs, twisted limbs, extra arms, extra fingers, missing fingers, fused fingers, bent joints, incorrect gripping; deformed umbrella, broken ribs, missing transparent umbrella, floating cup, props clipping; CG rendering, 3D characters, illustration, anime, oil painting, excessive sharpening, flawless advertisement image.
