There are two ways you can add emotion to your photos:
First, you can describe your character’s mood while describing your subject:
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Second, you can infuse emotion into the entire photo by simply incorporating it as a separate element. This approach has the advantage of creating very dark compositions and injecting a mood into the entire image, not just the subject.
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Let me also give you comparison catalogue of the emotion keywords with variety of face expressions.
Yes, hands can tell stories. They can unveil your emotional state, amplifies emotion. Hands can add life to your photos, making them more expressive.
When we're taking photos with Midjourney, we often forget to think about what the hands are doing. Are they styling the model's hair? Or are they giving a hint about how the person in the photo is feeling?
A simple prompting tip to integrate hands in your photos is combining emotion element with hands: