<h2 id="about-the-artist">About the Artist</h2>Sean Archer is the working name of Stanislav Puchkovsky, a portrait photographer, speaker and educator living in Yekaterinburg, Russia<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://www.dodho.com">www.dodho.com</a>.<ul><li>Started shooting in 2012 and rose from complete beginner to international fame within a few years<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://121clicks.com">121clicks.com</a></li><li>Became the first photographer in 500px history to reach one million "affections", with tens of millions of views and 100k+ followers on the platform<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://www.facebook.com">www.facebook.com</a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://lovespired.com">lovespired.com</a></li><li>Winner of "Best of Russia" (2014 and 2015) and Adme Photo awards<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://lovespired.com">lovespired.com</a></li><li>Specializes in female and children portraiture, working exclusively with natural light and no modifiers — no flash, no reflectors, just light, pose and editing<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://www.fredmiranda.com">www.fredmiranda.com</a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://www.iso1200.com">www.iso1200.com</a></li><li>His motto is blunt: "Real photographer. Real camera. Real models" — he publicly emphasizes that his published work contains no AI<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://www.facebook.com">www.facebook.com</a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://www.instagram.com">www.instagram.com</a></li></ul><hr /><h2 id="the-manner-(photographic-style)">The Manner (Photographic Style)</h2><ul><li>Natural light only: soft overcast skylight, open shade, window light, gentle golden-hour backlight — never hard flash; shadows are soft and open</li><li>Pastel color grading: mint, powder blue, peach, cream and pale rose; backgrounds desaturated to let delicate skin tones sing</li><li>Fast primes wide open: the look of 85–135mm at f/1.4–f/2 — razor-thin focus on the eyes, everything else melting into creamy circular bokeh</li><li>Porcelain skin with character: freckles, red hair, light eyes, flushed cheeks — skin is clean but keeps real texture; retouch is invisible</li><li>Tight emotional crops: close-ups and three-quarter portraits, direct or averted gaze, generous negative space in pastel tones</li><li>Dreamy locations: birch groves, blossom orchards, wheat fields, snow bokeh, pastel-painted walls, simple studio backdrops</li><li>Gentle posing: relaxed shoulders, tilted heads, hands near the face, hair in soft motion — intimacy without theatricality</li><li>Air and lightness: high-key exposure, lifted shadows, a faint haze that makes the frame feel weightless</li></ul><hr /><h2 id="tested-generation-settings">Tested Generation Settings</h2>ParameterValueBase modelKrea2 TurboVAE<code>qwen_image_vae</code>Text encoder<code>qwen3vl_4b_fp8_scaled</code>Steps8SamplerEuler aSchedule typeBong TangentCFG scale1Resolution1536×2048 (portrait — the native format) or 2048×2048LoRA weight0.7–0.9 (photo LoRAs overfit faster than painting ones)Negative prompt not required at CFG 1, but for photo realism add: <code>painting, illustration, 3d render, cgi, plastic skin, harsh flash, oversaturated</code><h2 id="versions">Versions</h2><ul><li>Epoch 20 (current) — captures the lighting, lens character and grading; stable on Krea2 Turbo at 8 steps.</li></ul><hr /><h2 id="rights-and-ethics-(important)">Rights &amp; Ethics (important)</h2>Sean Archer is a living artist who explicitly brands his work as "Real photographer. Real camera. Real models. No AI."<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://www.instagram.com">www.instagram.com</a>. Respect that:<ul><li>Use this LoRA as a non-commercial style study / fan tool only; never sell results or present them as his photographs</li><li>His photographs feature real, tagged models — do not use the LoRA to generate likenesses of identifiable real people</li><li>Credit the style reference when publishing results</li></ul>

PHOTOSTYLE BY  SEAN ARCHER

<pre><code>The Qwen 2.1 model is quite complex, though its realism is surprising; I am currently exploring various options and training methods. I have to do everything blindly.</code></pre>

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