Midjourney supports four-code SREF stacks with --exp 20 in a surreal photo recipe
Creators shared a Midjourney recipe that stacks four SREF codes with --exp 20, --quality 2, and --stylize 500 to get polished surreal close-ups. Use multi-SREF stacking to hold one photographic look more reliably than a single reference code.
TL;DR
- Midjourney creators are sharing a surreal photo recipe built around four stacked SREF codes; in [_VVSVS’s main post]( main recipe ) the full string pairs
--sref 4142107250 2258094493 2235195069 1015824329with--exp 20,--quality 2,--stylize 500,--ar 16:9, and profile8clamze. - The look is less about one reference code than a blended style stack: _VVSVS’s repost points back to the same multi-code setup rather than a new prompt, suggesting the stack itself is the repeatable ingredient.
- The outputs shown in [the recipe post]( recipe examples ) land in polished surreal photography territory, including an Arctic fox close-up, a hyperreal eyeball in fluffy material, and a dissolving particle silhouette.
How the recipe works
The usable takeaway is simple: instead of leaning on a single style reference, this setup stacks four SREF codes inside one prompt and then pushes expression with --exp 20. In [_VVSVS’s original recipe]( original post ), that stack is combined with --quality 2 for cleaner renders, --stylize 500 for a stronger aesthetic push, and a wide --ar 16:9 frame.
The posted results show what that combination is doing. [The image set]( image set ) keeps a photographic finish across very different subjects: soft fur detail on the sleeping fox
, glossy object realism on the blue iris
, and a more abstract figure that still reads like studio-shot material
. [_VVSVS’s repost]( amplified thread ) repeats the same parameter stack without changing the core formula, which makes this read more like a stable recipe than a one-off lucky prompt.