Emulates a vintage early 1900s era black & white photography style. It's trained for Pony, but REQUIRES you to use one of the realistic pony checkpoints. It does not work well with the base Pony model. The one I am using is ponyRealism_v21VAE.

Recommended settings:

--Checkpoint: ponyRealism_v21VAE

--Sampler: DPM++ SDE Karras or Exponential

--CFG: 3

--Steps: 20

--Resolution: 512x768

--Upres: ESRGAN_4x upscaler, 2x upscale, 0.4 denoising strength

--No need to use the typical Pony score_ prompts

Recommended trigger prompts:

cabcard, sepia, monochrome,

Short and simple prompts with a very low CFG scale tends to suit the style best. The lower the CFG the older the photo tends to look. Raising the CFG too far above 4 or so will create increasingly contrasty images which breaks the illusion of realism, in my opinion.

ADetailer to improve faces works sometimes, but I tend to not use it unless I really need to.

When I trained this LoRA, I was originally going for a much older photography style. Something more like mid to early 1800s daguerreotype photography, or Cabinet Cards (hence the 'cabcard' trigger word). That didn't quite work out how I wanted though admittedly, as the results it produces are definitely more 1900-1930s. That's ok though, it's a fun style to play with and can produce some great images!

I'll likely try again for the older style at some point, and would also like to do a later style as well, 60s-70s.