The atlas on this stand is full of beautiful plates that document nothing — swirls, contours, woven patterns, chosen precisely because they picture no real place. That is a deliberate lesson kept in view all day: decoration and documentation are different crafts, and confusing them is how studios end up with gorgeous frames of the wrong woman.
The card is documentation. Its five lines are measurements, written plainly, without adjectives doing the work of facts. “Elegant” is decoration; “hair in a smooth low chignon” is documentation. Prompts inherit the same discipline: the card paragraph is kept factual and pasted verbatim, and all the poetry is confined to the changing line, where it can do no harm.
Judging follows the same split. A frame is first read as a document — does it match the chart, line by line? Only frames that pass as documents are then admired as decoration, and only those are repaired, swapped or upscaled.
Keep the plates abstract and the records true. The studio’s atlas is honest about which of its pages are which, and the work is better for it.