I spent 6 months feeding Midjourney paragraphs of fancy descriptors for a client project in Austin, and the outputs felt flat every single time. Then a dev friend of mine pasted just 8 words into the prompt and got a perfect match, which made me realize every extra adjective was just confusing the model. Has anyone else trimmed their prompts way down after seeing a short one crush it?
That 8 word prompt your friend used, was it mostly subject and style words with no mood or lighting stuff at all? Six months of fancy descriptors is a lot to throw away, so I'm curious what actually survived the cut when you tested the short version. Did you find the model responds better to one clear subject or does it still need a couple anchor words to not drift?