Míharáe Crosses the Channel — DR McCulloch

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Míharáe Crosses the Channel

Oil on board. 30.5 × 23 cm.

£420

The in-situ photos are what an agentic model generated prompts for and signed-off. They are neither to scale nor a judgement of your domestic context. They are retained for LOLs.

Prompt, model and seed

Scene: Fourteenth Floor
Brief: Propped on the sill of a Kilmarnock high-rise. Condensation on the inside, rain on the out.
Prompt: close up photo, close up of a filthy flaking windowsill in a council tower block flat, a small painting propped against the streaming wet window among a saucer overflowing with fag ends, a dead brown spider plant in a cracked pot, a lighter, a scratchcard, dead flies, black mould spotting the frame and the yellowed net curtain, rain and grey 1960s scottish tower blocks blurred outside, amateur snapshot, candid, unposed, real people, ordinary plain faces, pale blotchy skin, tired, squalid, messy, dirty, stained, cluttered, lived-in, grubby, working class, analogue photo
Negative prompt: clean, neat, tidy, white bedding, crisp sheets, ikea, hotel room, airbnb, new furniture, beautiful, pretty, model, glamour, fashion photography, professional photography, perfect skin, flawless, studio lighting, portrait photography, headshot, scandinavian interior, minimalist, interior design, staged, showroom, real estate photo, catalogue, beige luxury, clean, tidy, symmetrical, render, 3d, cgi, illustration, painting, drawing, cartoon, anime, picture frame, frame, label, box, plaque, border, television screen on the wall, watermark, text, logo, nsfw, nude, naked, topless, nipples, genitals, deformed, extra limbs, mutated hands
Model: juggernaut_reborn (Stable Diffusion 1.5), VAE vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned; ControlNet control_v11p_sd15_inpaint, preprocessor inpaint_only, weight 1.0
Seed: 303
Settings: Sampler DPM++ 2M, Karras schedule, 32 steps, CFG 7. img2img inpaint over a colour-blocked layout at denoise 0.86, 768 × 960 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+.
The work in the room: The real 30.5 × 23 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 85 cm at the work), on the propped plane measured from DSINE surface normals and the room's vertical lines, relit from the light fitted around it, shadow cast from that light, then the 'flash' grade; plane spread 3.2°.

Scene: Match of the Day
Brief: On the wall behind his recliner. He hasn't seen the second half since 2011.
Prompt: wide angle photo of the whole room taken from across the room, full figures, floor visible, an old man asleep with his mouth wide open in a worn recliner chair, lit only by the blue glow of a television, cans of tennents lager on the side table, a remote on his belly, slippers, a small ceramic tile hung on the dark wall behind him, night, grainy, amateur snapshot, candid, unposed, real people, ordinary plain faces, pale blotchy skin, tired, squalid, messy, dirty, stained, cluttered, lived-in, grubby, working class, analogue photo
Negative prompt: clean, neat, tidy, white bedding, crisp sheets, ikea, hotel room, airbnb, new furniture, beautiful, pretty, model, glamour, fashion photography, professional photography, perfect skin, flawless, studio lighting, portrait photography, headshot, scandinavian interior, minimalist, interior design, staged, showroom, real estate photo, catalogue, beige luxury, clean, tidy, symmetrical, render, 3d, cgi, illustration, painting, drawing, cartoon, anime, picture frame, frame, label, box, plaque, border, television screen on the wall, watermark, text, logo, nsfw, nude, naked, topless, nipples, genitals, deformed, extra limbs, mutated hands, child, children, kid, toddler, baby, infant, teenager, teen, schoolgirl, schoolboy, young girl, young boy
Model: juggernaut_reborn (Stable Diffusion 1.5), VAE vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned; ControlNet control_v11p_sd15_inpaint, preprocessor inpaint_only, weight 1.0
Seed: 101
Settings: Sampler DPM++ 2M, Karras schedule, 32 steps, CFG 7. img2img inpaint over a colour-blocked layout at denoise 0.9, 960 × 768 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+. Faces redrawn with ADetailer (face_yolov8n, denoise 0.38, "candid unposed face, natural skin").
Wall repair: plain grubby painted wall surface, dim blue television light, amateur snapshot (seed 108; inpaint at denoise 0.55 over a Telea fill, 24 steps, CFG 5, ControlNet inpaint_only+lama)
The work in the room: The real 30.5 × 23 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 260 cm at the work), on the wall plane measured from DSINE surface normals and the room's vertical lines, relit from the light fitted around it, shadow cast from that light, then the 'tv' grade; plane spread 0.9°.

Scene: Whose Turn
Brief: Over the kettle, under the grease, through four years of whose turn it is.
Prompt: wide angle photo of the whole room taken from across the room, full figures, floor visible, two men in their thirties arguing in a tiny galley kitchen, one throwing a tea towel down, the other pointing at the sink overflowing with dirty dishes, takeaway cartons, a bin bag split open on the floor, grease on the tiles, a small ceramic tile hung on the wall above the kettle, harsh fluorescent tube light, glasgow tenement flat, amateur snapshot, candid, unposed, real people, ordinary plain faces, pale blotchy skin, tired, squalid, messy, dirty, stained, cluttered, lived-in, grubby, working class, analogue photo
Negative prompt: clean, neat, tidy, white bedding, crisp sheets, ikea, hotel room, airbnb, new furniture, beautiful, pretty, model, glamour, fashion photography, professional photography, perfect skin, flawless, studio lighting, portrait photography, headshot, scandinavian interior, minimalist, interior design, staged, showroom, real estate photo, catalogue, beige luxury, clean, tidy, symmetrical, render, 3d, cgi, illustration, painting, drawing, cartoon, anime, picture frame, frame, label, box, plaque, border, television screen on the wall, watermark, text, logo, nsfw, nude, naked, topless, nipples, genitals, deformed, extra limbs, mutated hands, child, children, kid, toddler, baby, infant, teenager, teen, schoolgirl, schoolboy, young girl, young boy
Model: juggernaut_reborn (Stable Diffusion 1.5), VAE vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned; ControlNet control_v11p_sd15_inpaint, preprocessor inpaint_only, weight 1.0
Seed: 202
Settings: Sampler DPM++ 2M, Karras schedule, 32 steps, CFG 7. img2img inpaint over a colour-blocked layout at denoise 0.9, 768 × 960 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+. Faces redrawn with ADetailer (face_yolov8n, denoise 0.38, "candid unposed face, natural skin").
Wall repair: plain grubby painted wall surface, fluorescent light, amateur snapshot (seed 209; inpaint at denoise 0.55 over a Telea fill, 24 steps, CFG 5, ControlNet inpaint_only+lama)
The work in the room: The real 30.5 × 23 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 240 cm at the work), on the wall plane measured from DSINE surface normals and the room's vertical lines, relit from the light fitted around it, shadow cast from that light, then the 'fluoro' grade; plane spread 0.5°.

Scene: Test Match
Brief: On the library wall behind the leather armchair. He has seen this test before.
Prompt: wide angle photo of the whole room taken from across the room, full figures, floor visible, a red faced old man asleep with his mouth open in a cracked leather armchair in a wood panelled library, cricket on a large television, a decanter of port and a cigar in an ashtray on a side table, newspapers on the floor, a labrador asleep at his feet, a small painting hung on the panelling behind him, evening, grainy, amateur snapshot taken by a guest, candid, unposed, real people, ordinary unflattering faces, tired, expensive clutter, lived-in wealth, old money and new money, analogue photo
Negative prompt: interior design magazine, architectural digest, real estate photo, staged, showroom, catalogue, minimalist, empty, render, 3d, cgi, illustration, painting, drawing, cartoon, anime, beautiful, pretty, model, glamour, fashion photography, perfect skin, flawless, studio lighting, picture frame, frame, label, box, plaque, border, television screen on the wall, watermark, text, logo, nsfw, nude, naked, topless, nipples, genitals, deformed, extra limbs, mutated hands, child, children, kid, toddler, baby, infant, teenager, teen, schoolgirl, schoolboy, young girl, young boy
Model: juggernaut_reborn (Stable Diffusion 1.5), VAE vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned; ControlNet control_v11p_sd15_inpaint, preprocessor inpaint_only, weight 1.0
Seed: 101
Settings: Sampler DPM++ 2M, Karras schedule, 32 steps, CFG 7. img2img inpaint over a colour-blocked layout at denoise 0.9, 960 × 768 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+. Faces redrawn with ADetailer (face_yolov8n, denoise 0.38, "candid unposed face, natural skin").
The work in the room: The real 30.5 × 23 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 260 cm at the work), on the wall plane measured from DSINE surface normals and the room's vertical lines, relit from the light fitted around it, shadow cast from that light, then the 'tv' grade.

Scene: School Fees
Brief: Over the island, through an argument about school fees.
Prompt: wide angle photo of the whole room taken from across the room, full figures, floor visible, a husband and wife in their forties having a furious argument across a huge marble kitchen island, him in a quilted gilet waving a letter, her in gym clothes with her arms folded, a half eaten sourdough, a bottle of white burgundy, a range cooker, an expensive coffee machine, a small ceramic tile hung on the wall above the range, cold kitchen downlights, amateur snapshot taken by a guest, candid, unposed, real people, ordinary unflattering faces, tired, expensive clutter, lived-in wealth, old money and new money, analogue photo
Negative prompt: interior design magazine, architectural digest, real estate photo, staged, showroom, catalogue, minimalist, empty, render, 3d, cgi, illustration, painting, drawing, cartoon, anime, beautiful, pretty, model, glamour, fashion photography, perfect skin, flawless, studio lighting, picture frame, frame, label, box, plaque, border, television screen on the wall, watermark, text, logo, nsfw, nude, naked, topless, nipples, genitals, deformed, extra limbs, mutated hands, child, children, kid, toddler, baby, infant, teenager, teen, schoolgirl, schoolboy, young girl, young boy
Model: juggernaut_reborn (Stable Diffusion 1.5), VAE vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned; ControlNet control_v11p_sd15_inpaint, preprocessor inpaint_only, weight 1.0
Seed: 303
Settings: Sampler DPM++ 2M, Karras schedule, 32 steps, CFG 7. img2img inpaint over a colour-blocked layout at denoise 0.9, 768 × 960 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+. Faces redrawn with ADetailer (face_yolov8n, denoise 0.38, "candid unposed face, natural skin").
The work in the room: The real 30.5 × 23 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 240 cm at the work), on the wall plane measured from DSINE surface normals and the room's vertical lines, relit from the light fitted around it, shadow cast from that light, then the 'fluoro' grade.