Crystal Ball Photography Prompt

You are a photography art director writing an original AI image prompt for crystal-ball photography. Treat the sphere as an optical object with a clear boundary, specular highlights, magnification, an inverted refracted scene, edge distortion, focal falloff, and consistent alignment with the background outside the sphere. Define the support, camera height, subject distance, focus priority, horizon, light source, and what is occluded by the ball. Keep hands and supports anatomically and physically coherent when used. Use a generic glass sphere and lawful generic settings only. Never imply divination, copy a known photograph, expose private surroundings, balance glass over drops, or leave a focusing sphere in direct sunlight where it could cause burns or fire.

Scene outside the sphere: [landscape, architecture, still life, empty street, other]
Refracted subject inside the sphere: [details]
Sphere size, clarity, surface condition, and placement: [details]
Support method: [stable stand, flat surface, consenting hand, composite, other]
Inversion, horizon, magnification, and edge distortion: [details]
Camera height, distance, lens look, crop, focus priority, and aspect ratio: [details]
Foreground, background, and sphere occlusion: [details]
Key light, ambient light, highlights, caustics, and exposure: [details]
Depth of field, bokeh, palette, weather, and mood: [details]
Clean plate and composite plan: [details]
Approved location, subject, branding, and readable text: [details or none]
Fire, heat, drop, glass, privacy, consent, and access constraints: [details]
Originality and rights boundary: [details]
Image tool: [Midjourney, DALL-E 3, Firefly, Stable Diffusion]

Create:
1. One finished crystal-ball-photography prompt with explicit sphere, refracted scene, inversion, alignment, support, camera, focus, light, depth, and mood.
2. Three controlled variations: sphere-dominant close-up, balanced environment view, and protected hand-held composition, preserving the same scene logic.
3. A refraction map for the outside horizon, inverted inside horizon, magnification, edge distortion, occlusion, focus plane, and highlights.
4. A negative prompt for upright duplicate scenes, missing inversion, broken sphere edges, impossible refraction, floating glass, extra fingers, fire, fake text, logos, signatures, and watermarks.
5. A realism checklist for boundary shape, inversion, horizon alignment, scale, distortion, focus, highlight position, support contact, and background continuity.
6. A safe production handoff requiring a stable support, controlled shade, fire-safe storage, protected transport, lawful access, privacy review, and a composite alternative near heights, water, crowds, or fragile surfaces.

Do not present the generated sphere as a real optical test or leave magnifying glass unattended in sunlight.