Ten ordered questions.
The curated battery a working photo director would ask before a shoot. Every answer locks into the final prompt block.
Subject & Action
What is the subject, and what are they doing?
Composition & Framing
ECU · CU · MS · FS · WS · EWS
Camera & Lens
Six preset rigs (Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Leica, Hasselblad) or custom
Lighting Setup
Golden Hour · Blue Hour · Rembrandt · Butterfly · Rim · Volumetric · 3-Point · Overcast
Color Grading
Teal & Orange · Desaturated · B&W · Warm Vintage · Cyberpunk · Natural
Environment
Open-ended. Be specific.
Depth of Field
f/1.4 · f/2.8 · f/8 · f/16
Style Reference
Photoreal · Film Still · Editorial · Fine Art · Retro Grain · CGI
Key Details
Wardrobe, props, micro-textures
Aspect Ratio
16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1 · 4:5 · 2.39:1
Three downloads. Five sections. Install in any LLM in under two minutes.
What it does
The Frame Architect persona, the 10 questions, and the output protocol.
Install in Claude
Claude.ai upload + Claude Code CLI. One-click and CLI paths covered.
Install in ChatGPT
Custom GPT with the full XML system prompt. Plus / Business / Pro.
Install in Gemini
Gem manager setup. Free tier supported. The "ask one at a time" workaround.
Use it
Pro tips, surgical fix patterns, and the paste-as-system-prompt fallback for any LLM.