Best Midjourney Prompts: How Art Knowledge Can Make You a Better Prompter

Midjourney, the versatile generative AI, offers endless possibilities for creating captivating and visually striking images. To make the most of this powerful tool, understanding the fundamentals of art can greatly enhance your ability to generate compelling prompts. In this blog post, we will explore the connection between art knowledge and effective prompt creation in Midjourney, focusing on various art styles, photography genres, camera settings, and aspect ratios.

1. Art Styles and Prompting in Midjourney: Art styles play a crucial role in setting the tone and visual direction of your generated image. Familiarity with art styles allows you to convey specific aesthetics and evoke desired emotions. Let’s consider a few examples:

• Impressionism: Utilize keywords such as “blurry brushstrokes,” “painted light,” and “pastel colors” to prompt Midjourney in creating impressionistic landscapes or portraits. The resulting images will capture the essence of this artistic movement.
• Realism: Incorporate keywords like “hyper-realistic textures” and “precise details” to generate realistic still life, landscapes, or portraits that mimic the precision of real-world objects.
• Pop Art: Experiment with prompts featuring “bold colors,” “stylized portraits,” and “famous faces” to generate vibrant and eye-catching images reminiscent of the iconic pop art movement.
  
  These are just a few styles, think of all of the many different art styles and how they relate to your brand. Honing down on a certain style will bring a cohesive look to your brand image.

2. Photography Genres and Midjourney Prompts: Understanding different photography genres allows you to generate prompts that align with specific visual narratives and techniques. Here are a few examples:

• Street Photography: Craft prompts highlighting “candid moments,” “urban landscapes,” and “street life” to generate AI-created street photographs that capture the essence of everyday life and evoke a sense of raw authenticity.
• Night Photography: Utilize keywords such as “lit cityscapes,” “starry skies,” and “long exposures” to prompt Midjourney in generating mesmerizing nighttime images with captivating light and captivating nocturnal scenes.

3. Camera Lenses and Filters for Midjourney Prompts: Camera lenses and filters are integral components in photography, shaping the composition and visual impact of an image. Incorporating specific lenses and filters into your prompts can yield remarkable results. Consider the following examples:

• Wide-Angle Lenses: Craft prompts that emphasize “expansive landscapes,” “architectural details,” or “wide-angle portraits” to generate AI-generated images that capture a broader field of view, showcasing vastness and grandeur. Using specific mm such as 16 mm for wide angle shots
• Macro Lenses: Utilize keywords such as “intricate details,” “close-up textures,” and “macro still life” to prompt Midjourney in producing highly detailed and magnified images, focusing on small subjects and capturing their intricate beauty.
• Specific cameras: Canon 5d Mark IV or Fujifilm X

4. Perfecting Your Midjourney Prompts: To achieve the desired visual style, remember to include specific details and elements related to the chosen art style, photography genre, or camera setting. Starting with a clear description of the scene and gradually introducing style keywords can help Midjourney understand your vision better.

Aspect ratios in Midjourney play a crucial role in determining the composition and visual format of the generated images. By specifying the aspect ratio, such as 16:9 for horizontal images, 9:16 for vertical images, or 1:1 for square images, prompters can ensure that the resulting visuals are optimized for different platforms and mediums. Whether it’s creating content for social media, websites, or print, understanding the significance of aspect ratios empowers prompters to tailor their prompts to the desired format, ensuring a seamless integration of the generated images into their intended context.

Here are four examples of detailed, advanced prompts for a marketer looking to make an image about an influencer or social media creation. We added our teal and pink colors that go with our brand, but you can use the prompts below to play around and see what you get.

Prompt 1: A charismatic influencer standing in a vibrant urban setting, surrounded by colorful street art, trendy cafes, and bustling crowds, capturing the essence of urban culture and modern lifestyle, with the influencer confidently posing and holding a smartphone, ready to create engaging social media content, Photography, portrait mode, –ar 9:16

Prompt 2: An energetic content creator in a picturesque natural environment, standing on a mountaintop with a breathtaking panoramic view, capturing the beauty of nature, adventure, and exploration, with the creator holding a camera and wearing outdoor gear, exuding a sense of excitement and wanderlust, Photography, wide-angle lens (18mm), –ar 16:9

Prompt 3: A creative blogger in a cozy and stylish indoor setting, surrounded by a carefully curated workspace with books, plants, and artistic decor, capturing the essence of creativity, inspiration, and productivity, with the blogger sitting at a desk, using a laptop and shooting flat-lays for their social media feed, Illustration, digital art, –ar 9:16

Prompt 4: A fashion influencer in a glamorous cityscape, standing on a rooftop with a stunning skyline in the background, capturing the allure of fashion, sophistication, and urban lifestyle, with the influencer striking a confident pose, wearing fashionable attire and accessorizing with statement pieces, ready to share their impeccable style on social media, Photography, prime lens (50mm), –ar 1:1

As you can see, each prompt has a description of the subject, location, details, what they are doing, background, mood or tone, type of art or photography, what lens was used (only applies to photography, you can still give the prompt of a wide-angle or close-up view for other forms of art), and aspect ratio.

By leveraging your knowledge of art styles, photography genres, and camera settings, aspect ratios you can craft effective prompts for Midjourney that result in captivating and visually stunning images. Experiment with different combinations of keywords and explore various styles to unlock the full potential of this powerful generative AI. With Midjourney as your creative companion, the possibilities for creating compelling visual content are limitless.