av-home-preview · internal · Higgsfield run pack v2.1
Only the three scenes that failed the v2 generation round, rebuilt under the laws that round taught us: two people in one frame share a social moment and never a mechanism, at most one face prominent (turned or mid-distance beats big and emoting), machines stay closed, every beat gets a mechanically natural home, and nothing warmer than late-morning sun.
What changed: the coordinated nail-gun beat is gone. Two roofers now hold separate, mechanically simple actions: one kneels at his course, one carries a bundle. No tools touching the roof, no shared workpiece, faces small against the slope.
Candid photograph on a pitched shingle roof, camera at roof height from a ladder at the eave, looking along the slope. A roofer in his forties in a washed grey t-shirt kneels at the course in front of him, one hand resting flat on the shingle he has just set, reaching with the other into the open bundle beside him for the next one, while further up the slope a younger roofer in a plain tan shirt walks a wrapped bundle of shingles balanced on his shoulder toward the ridge, leaning into the pitch, steadying it with one hand. Two men each at their own task on one roof, absorbed, nobody performing. Hard morning sun from camera right rakes across the shingles, throwing their long crisp shadows up the slope; the sky above the ridge is clean and pale. Real skin texture with pores and flyaway hairs, slight motion softness, gentle film grain, natural color, imperfect framing, no studio styling, nobody looking at camera. Do NOT include: a nail gun or any power tool, any phone anywhere in frame, readable logos, brand marks, or company lettering, dust, stains, damaged shingles, clutter, watermark text. No extra fingers, no warped hands, all shadows falling the same direction, every person fully clothed.
What changed: the pointing tableau and the opened condenser are gone. The unit stays closed, the tech writes on his clipboard (a mechanically natural pose that also echoes the site's work-order ticket), the homeowner watches from a relaxed distance. One quiet shared moment, both faces mid-distance.
Candid photograph in a suburban backyard, camera at chest height a few steps away. An HVAC technician in his thirties in a plain charcoal work shirt kneels on one knee beside the closed outdoor AC unit, filling in a paper work order on a metal clipboard propped on his raised knee, pen in hand, looking down at the page, his canvas tool bag on the grass beside him. A few steps behind, the homeowner, a man in his fifties in a plain olive t-shirt, watches from the edge of his wooden deck with his arms loosely folded, relaxed, an ordinary service call winding down. Two people at ease, nobody performing. Bright overcast daylight, soft even shadows, colors saturated and true, the lawn and wooden fence softly lit behind them. Real skin texture with pores and flyaway hairs, slight motion softness, gentle film grain, natural color, imperfect framing, no studio styling, nobody looking at camera. Do NOT include: an open or disassembled AC unit, loose or exposed wiring, any phone anywhere in frame, readable logos, brand marks, or company lettering, dust, stains, rust, clutter, watermark text. No extra fingers, no warped hands, every person fully clothed.
What changed: the van floor is no longer a desk. He sits on the rear bumper with the clipboard on his knee, which is where a real body would do this. Late morning sun instead of evening glow.
Candid photograph at the back of a plain white work van parked at a suburban curb, rear doors open, camera at eye level a step away. A tradesman in his fifties in a plain navy shirt sits on the rear bumper with a metal clipboard resting on his knee, filling in a paper work order, pen in hand, looking down at the page, his canvas tool bag on the pavement beside his boots. Late morning sun from camera left, crisp shadows on the road, the van's white side bright and clean, a quiet suburban street soft in the background. Real skin texture with pores and flyaway hairs, slight motion softness, gentle film grain, natural color, imperfect framing, no studio styling, nobody looking at camera. Do NOT include: any phone anywhere in frame, readable logos, brand marks, or company lettering on the van or clothing, dust, stains, dents, rust, clutter, watermark text. No extra fingers, no warped hands, every person fully clothed.
Generate in the Higgsfield UI (API/CLI costs 3x the credits). GPT Image 2, Quality High, ratio per chip; block shots cheap on Nano Banana Pro first if you like. QA per keeper: one sun with agreeing shadows, hands at 200 percent zoom, no logos or lettering survived. The three v2 keepers plus these three reshoots complete the set. Method and the new laws: web/generation/PHOTO-DIRECTION.md.