Close-up · view 07 of 13 · wet autumn afternoon · rendered with ChatGPT image generation.

Attach model-blockbuster.jpg (shape reference), the screenshot from the model's Blockbuster view. The first image here is the result.

Open a fresh chat for each view, so it does not borrow from the last image. Attach only the one reference image, paste the prompt and ask for landscape format.

how it came out

One of the strongest in the second round, with Midland Bank and the phone box in place.

prompt

Turn the attached 3D model image into a photorealistic architectural photograph. Keep the exact layout, camera angle and the position of every building, shopfront, sign, lamp post, bench and tree from the attached image. Only change the materials, lighting, weather and surroundings as described below.

Setting: a soft, overcast autumn afternoon in Market Row, the private courtyard street of the house, just after a shower. The pavement is damp and reflective. Camera at eye height on the pavement, looking at the shopfront, 24mm lens.

Blockbuster, a 1990s video rental shop front:
- A deep, lit box sign in royal blue reading BLOCKBUSTER in bold yellow capital letters, with a thin yellow strip underneath. No other logo.
- White aluminium shopfront frame with big plate glass windows.
- The windows packed with colourful generic film posters with no readable titles.
- A small glowing red OPEN sign in the door.
- A blue returns box with a yellow slot beside the door.

Neighbours: the narrow 1980s Midland Bank front on the left, deep navy fascia with MIDLAND BANK in plain gold serif capitals (no logo) and a round bracket clock. The edge of The Regal's cream Deco front on the right. Blockbuster sits in its own stone bay between honed pale limestone pilasters under the stone cornice; above, the limestone grid and the floating roof plate. A red cast-iron telephone box stands at the kerb on the right. A black lamp post on the left.

Mood: a slightly nostalgic 1990s high street feel, but clean and well kept.

Style: high-end architectural photography, natural colours, crisp detail, real weathering and texture.

Avoid: changing the layout, theme park or film set look, twee chocolate-box cottages, plastic signs, modern glass boxes, real film titles or logos other than the shop names given, people, extra text.