Street Photo With Five Pins
A wide daylight photograph of a real place with five small pins on it, each naming something actually visible in the frame rather than floating over it. Seven fields.
We made two examples: a studio lane closed by an arch and a working quay closed by a lighthouse. Different places, same discipline: something pinned in the foreground, something pinned at the far end, and the middle taking the rest.
The five pins spread across three distances, from a bench in the foreground to an arch at the far end, and every ring sits on the thing its label names. That makes the photo read as a place you could walk through, not a single row of shopfronts. Label lines sometimes sit to the left of their rings instead of the right, and the farthest pin can drift up into the sky: check it before you use the image.
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Input
Place the Vibary studio street on an ordinary Tuesday
Photo a wide brick lane in flat daylight, workshop doors
open both sides, a bench under a tree near, people
mid-distance, sky in the top quarter
Things print shop door, near left · bench under tree, near
right · cafe chalkboard, middle · bike rack, middle
right · arch at the far end, distant centre
Labels (2 min) posters printed · (0 min) somewhere to sit ·
(3 min) coffee and a plug · (1 min) leave the bike ·
(5 min) the whole street
Head EVERYTHING HERE IS FIVE MINUTES AWAY
Returned 1 poster · 2:3 · flat daylight, wide lane, five pins
photo sky across the top quarter, the lane receding below it,
brick and open doors legible, people small mid-distance
pins five hairline rings, each resting on its own subject -
the print shop's open door, the bench, the chalkboard,
the rack, the far arch. Near, middle and far are all
represented, so the street reads as walkable
labels each pin's line sits beside it in white, bracketed
minutes first, then the thing itself, small enough to
read as annotation
type the headline across the upper third in white, the mark
upper left, the closing line lower right under a thin
arrow
verdict follow every ring and it lands on something photographedYou fill in 7 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The place
- 2The photograph
- 3The five things, and where each sits
- 4The five labels
- 5The headline
- 6The mark and the sub-line
- 7The closing line
Street Photo With Five Pins
What this makes
A wide daylight photograph of a real place with five small pins on it, each naming something actually visible in the frame rather than floating over it. Seven fields.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Replace the seven FIELDS lines. Name each of the five things with its position in the frame — that pairing is what stops a pin becoming a sticker.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Check pin by pin: follow each ring to what it sits on. Any pin whose subject is not in the photograph is the failure this template exists to prevent.
What you swap
- The place
- the Vibary studio street on an ordinary Tuesday
- The photograph
- a wide brick lane in flat daylight, workshop doors open along both sides, a bench under a tree at the near end, people walking mid-distance, sky filling the top quarter
- The five things, and where each sits
- the open door of the print shop, near left · the bench under the tree, near right · a chalkboard outside the cafe, middle · a bike rack against the wall, middle right · the arch at the far end, distant centre
- The five labels
- (2 min) posters printed · (0 min) somewhere to sit · (3 min) coffee and a plug · (1 min) leave the bike · (5 min) the whole street
- The headline
- EVERYTHING HERE IS FIVE MINUTES AWAY
- The mark and the sub-line
- VIBARY · the studio street
- The closing line
- come down · work outside for once
Before it runs
- A photograph with real depth and five separable subjects. A flat wall or an empty lawn gives the pins nothing to land on.
- Five things you could photograph, named with their positions. `Convenience` and `community` are not things and produce pins pointing at air.
- Bright even daylight. Pins are white and unstroked, so the ground beneath them has to carry them without help.
When to reach for it
For a neighbourhood, a campus, a park, a development — anywhere the argument is that everything is close by. The style is everywhere in property and civic marketing, and its pins almost always point at nothing.
What changes
- One open photograph in natural daylight, a quarter sky and three quarters place, shot wide enough to hold five separate things.
- Every pin sits on something the photograph actually contains, so the labels are captions rather than decoration.
- Each pin is a hairline ring with a short bracketed line beside it, small enough to read as annotation instead of as signage.
- The pins are spread across the depth of the scene — near, middle and far — which is what makes the place feel walkable rather than flat.
- All type is white, unshadowed and unstroked, so contrast comes from choosing bright ground rather than from adding outlines.
Pairs with
- Diagonal Split Macro PosterA macro poster split on a diagonal — backlit translucent matter on one side, deep shadow on the other — with every text assigned to the side that can actually carry it. Seven fields.
- Film Contact SheetA contact sheet of six film frames that fills its grid completely, where the exposure printed under each frame matches the light in it. Six fields.
- Photo With Glowing Drawn FigureA real photograph with one glowing hand-drawn figure living inside it — standing on a real surface, touching a real object, and placed in the quietest part of the frame. Six fields.