Prompt Engineering Photography
# SKILL 21 — Professional Prompt Engineering for AI Image Generation
**Version 1.0**
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## WHEN TO USE
For every app generating AI images where prompt quality determines output quality. This skill codifies the "professional photography brief" pattern for photorealistic output from generative models.
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## PRINCIPLE
The difference between "prompt written by a dev" and "prompt written by a professional photographer" has been validated with real tests. The dev writes "professional headshot, good lighting." The photographer writes a technical brief with lighting type, contrast ratio, depth of field, and composition.
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## PROMPT ARCHITECTURE
### Fundamental rule: immutable templates in the backendwhen to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo iogiuseppemosca/ai-app-factory (MIT). A "Prompt Engineering Photography" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
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iogiuseppemosca/ai-app-factory · MIT
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