Glibatree (Ben Schade) recently implored on YouTube: Do THIS to Create Amazing Poses in Midjourney!!!

The problem with a lot of image generators is that they love selfies: front-facing portraits. But what if you want a profile? Ben has a two-step work-around:

“Generate a close-up photo of your subject’s ear and then use the editor to zoom out and create the rest of the image.”

He explains:

“The reason this works is because what Midjourney needed was a pattern interrupt. Take advantage of its usual way to generate images by finding the usual way to generate an image with a more unusual focus. It’s better to choose a focus that is already often viewed from the angle we want.

• focus on a ponytail if we want to see the back of someone’s head
• use a receding hairline to see someone from straight above
• focus on the back pocket of a pair of jeans if you want the…
• I wouldn’t recommend looking up someone’s nostril (I mean it’s an angle that works but I just wouldn’t recommend it.)

The point is we can generate any of these things using extremely simple prompts and get very unusual angles to be seeing a person from. And then starting from there once we have the angle well defined we can simply zoom out and make our chosen feature less prominent by changing our prompt to something else and so in the new image the angle we wanted is extremely well defined not by tons of keywords but by the part of the image we already generated.”

This works for Expressions as well. He explains:

“If we start with a photo of just a smile or just closed eyes or just a mischievous smirk, Midjourney will spend all of its effort to create a high quality closeup version of the exact expression we wanted that now, in just one more generation, we can apply to our character by simply zooming out.”

My take: thank you, Ben, for cracking the code!