Courtyard · view 09 of 13 · spring midday · rendered with ChatGPT image generation.

Attach model-lightwell-and-pool.jpg (shape reference), the screenshot from the model's Lightwell and pool 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.

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 bright spring midday in Market Row, the private courtyard street of the house, high sun falling straight down into a sunken lightwell. Camera standing at the glass balustrade on the west side of the lightwell, looking down and across it, 24mm lens.

The lightwell: about 7 metres square and 4.5 metres deep, cut into the granite street. Its walls are smooth honed pale limestone. Round the top: a pale stone coping and a frameless glass balustrade with a slim dark bronze handrail. At the bottom: the florist's garden, raised planting beds of dark timber full of spring flowers, two small multi-stem trees, ferns, and terracotta pots.

On the far side at the bottom: a full-height glass wall with slim bronze mullions, looking into an underground swimming pool hall. Through the glass: a long pool of clear turquoise water, pale limestone floor, warm soft light in the ceiling, and sunlight from the lightwell rippling on the pool.

Around the top of the well: the granite setts laid in fan arcs, the bronze and glass shopfronts of Lowther Gallery and Hartley's Bakery in the distance, a silver birch and the stone water bowl on the square.

Mood: a hidden green room under the street, calm and surprising.

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.