5 Best Midjourney Prompts: December 2023 (Lighting)
A look at using lighting modifiers in your Midjourney prompts.
Happy Thursday!
Welcome to the final Midjourney prompts post of the year. (Crazy to think that this monthly tradition started in December last year.)
As any photographer or artist will tell you, how you light your subjects matters.
That’s because, without light, we cannot see.
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So before we all go on our well-deserved Christmas break, here are some ways you can use lighting in Midjourney.
To demonstrate the impact, I use the same three subjects in all prompts:
Photo of a woman
Photo of a teddy bear
Photo of a rose
As you’ll see, a lighting modifier can single-handedly affect the setting and location of the shot. You can (and should) use a detailed description of your intended scene to get the results you want.
Note: All sample images are Midjourney Version 5.2.
Extra note: Just as I was about to publish this post, Midjourney released a test alpha version of their newest model, V6. It will be changing a lot over the coming days as…