Old Portraits

Using a set of 25 mainly old large format photos from the 19th and early 20th century I wanted to capture the lighting, expression and film artifacts from this era. Subjects range in age, gender & ethnicity with poses generally looking at the camera with a neutral expression.

While only a couple of my source images had distressed frames, plenty of the generations contain them.

SD2.1 - 768 model. Trained with 6000 steps using The Last Ben.

Use oldpt as keyword.

I've also included a .yaml (click config on the download arrow) as i needed this to sit beside the checkpoint to run in the Auto1111 gui.

Hot tip : Using SoCalGuitarist's embeddings adds some extra flavor.

example prompt:

• oldpt woman photograph, full body, large format, AnalogFilm768-BW-Modern

Keen to see what everyone comes up with!

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