Courtyard · view 02 of 13 · high summer afternoon · rendered with ChatGPT image generation.

Attach model-market-row.jpg (shape reference), the screenshot from the model's Market Row street 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

Shop order held.

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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: high summer, late afternoon, warm sun from the west. Half the street is in soft shade and the sun catches the shopfronts on the far side. Camera at eye height on the cobbled road near the south-east corner, looking north-west across the square, 24mm lens.

The space: a private courtyard street called Market Row, about 34 by 28 metres and open to the sky, enclosed on all four sides by a two-storey ring of buildings. The style is Milan made modern. Ground floor, classical: honed pale limestone pilasters between the shops and a deep carved pale stone cornice running the full length of the street, with a slim bronze and glass canopy along the shopfronts, a fine warm LED line along its edge, and small uplights at the foot of every pilaster. Upper floor, modern: a crisp grid of pale Portland limestone fins and slabs with tall windows set deep into the grid in dark bronze frames; clean lines, no ornament, classical proportions. Roof: a continuous band of clerestory glass with slim bronze mullions sits on top of the limestone grid, and above it a thin, pale floating roof plate overhangs the street by nearly two metres, its edge traced by a fine warm LED line, so the roof appears to hover. The plates step up and down with the house sections, and dark slate roofs rise behind them. Shopfronts: most are slim dark bronze and tall plate glass with the shop name in cut bronze serif letters, softly backlit; six keep their own era character: The Regal (1930s Art Deco cinema), Blockbuster (1990s video shop), Trattoria Lucia (1950s Italian trattoria), Our Price (1980s record shop), Midland Bank (1980s bank) and Texas Homecare (1990s DIY store with a red lit fascia and a roller shutter). Every real chain name is in plain lettering with no logos. All the stone is calm, even and pale with no marble veining. Floor: pale granite slab pavements, a road loop in grey granite setts laid in sweeping fan arcs with pale granite kerb bands, and a raised pale granite square in the middle with a low, wide round stone water bowl, four silver birch trees and long backless timber benches on black steel legs. Slim black modern lamp posts with small rectangular heads. Copper rain chains hang into granite troughs at the four inner corners. In the north-west corner of the street, a sunken lightwell about 7 metres square, edged with a pale stone coping and a frameless glass balustrade with a slim bronze handrail, drops 4.5 metres to a planted florist's garden; at its bottom, a full-height glass wall looks into an underground swimming pool.

Shopfronts on the far (north) side, left to right, each in its own stone bay:
- The Albion Lounge, The Crown & Anchor and Fairbairn & Vine Wine Merchants: slim dark bronze frame and tall plate glass, the name in cut bronze serif letters on a dark bronze fascia, softly backlit.
- Trattoria Lucia, the one era front on this side: 1950s Italian trattoria, cream frame, red fascia with cream script lettering, a red and white striped awning, cafe tables and chairs on the pavement.
- Hartley's Bakery: slim dark bronze frame and tall plate glass, the name in cut bronze serif letters on a dark bronze fascia, softly backlit.
On the left side, left to right: Lowther Gallery, Abbott & Sons Barbers, the narrow front of Market Row Baths and Marlowe & Pike Booksellers, all slim dark bronze frame and tall plate glass, the name in cut bronze serif letters on a dark bronze fascia, softly backlit. In front of them, the glass balustrade of the sunken lightwell, with the tops of its garden trees just showing.
Only these shops are in view, in this order. The Regal and Blockbuster are on the opposite side of the street, behind the camera, and must not appear in this image.

Details: still water in the stone bowl reflecting the sky, the birches in full leaf, cafe tables laid, the floating roof plates casting a crisp shadow line along the limestone.

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.