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The west end at sunset, straight on from the meadow, with the sun low behind the camera and a gold-to-blue sky. A wide, low arch of coursed gritstone under a thin bronze edge, with one tall window in dark bronze frames in the middle. Through it a fire burns low in a stone hearth, with the garden's trees softly lit beyond. A paved gritstone terrace runs along the foot of the wall, and on the right the gritstone plinth of the lower floor shows where the land falls away. Close to the drawings. Off brief: the shell stops flush with the stone behind a thin bronze edge, where the drawings have a soft 0.5 m overhang with the copper and larch showing over the top.

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West end, summer sunset

Exterior, view 03. Attach the model screenshot, then paste the prompt.

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West end, summer sunset

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Exterior · view 03 of 13 · rendered with ChatGPT image generation.

Attach model-west-end.jpg (shape reference). The first image here is the result.

Open a fresh ChatGPT chat for each view, so it does not borrow from the last image. Attach only the one reference image named, then paste the prompt and ask for landscape format. If a render drifts, send it back with a short edit: "Keep everything the same except ...".

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Turn the attached 3D model image into a photorealistic architectural photograph. Keep the exact shape, proportions, camera angle and position of every element from the attached image. Only change the materials, lighting and surroundings as described below.

Setting: the west end of the house in the English Peak District at sunset in high summer. The sun is low behind the camera, washing the stone in deep warm orange light; the sky above is clear, fading from gold to soft blue. Camera at eye height, 35mm lens, looking straight at the end wall.

Shape rules (do not change these from the image): the end of the house is a wide, low arch, about 27 metres wide and about 10.5 metres high at the centre, sitting under the end of one continuous curved shell. The shell overhangs the stone end only slightly at the top. No eaves, no gutters, no towers.

Materials:
- The arched end wall: coursed dark Derbyshire gritstone, with natural colour variation.
- The thin edge of the shell around the arch: dark bronze, with the copper and larch of the shell just visible over the top and sides.
- The window in the centre: about 4.5 metres wide and 7 metres tall, in a deep dark bronze frame divided into six panes by slim bronze bars. Clear glass.
- Just inside the window: a low open fire in a stone hearth, flames clearly visible through the glass.
- Beyond the fire, through the glass: soft glimpses of an internal garden with small trees under a glass roof, warmly lit.
- At the foot of the wall: a paved gritstone terrace. To the right, where the land falls away, the dark gritstone plinth of the lower floor.

Surroundings: wildflower meadow catching the last light, a low dry stone wall on the left, a few mature oaks, rolling hills.

Style: atmospheric but realistic architectural photography, warm sunset light against cool sky, crisp stone texture. Avoid: changing the shape, fully glazed end wall, tall narrow end, stone tower, roof curling at the edge, white render, people, text.

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The west end at sunset, straight on from the meadow, with the sun low behind the camera and a gold-to-blue sky. A wide, low arch of coursed gritstone under a thin bronze edge, with one tall window in dark bronze frames in the middle. Through it a fire burns low in a stone hearth, with the garden's trees softly lit beyond. A paved gritstone terrace runs along the foot of the wall, and on the right the gritstone plinth of the lower floor shows where the land falls away. Close to the drawings. Off brief: the shell stops flush with the stone behind a thin bronze edge, where the drawings have a soft 0.5 m overhang with the copper and larch showing over the top.
01 · The west end at sunset
Screenshot of the 3D model straight on to the west end: a wide low gritstone arch with one tall glazed window in the middle, with the garden's trees seen through it. The shape reference for the west end at sunset.
02 · Screenshot of the 3D model straight on to the west end: a wide low gritstone arch with one tall glazed window in the middle