Introduction
Photographic realism sharply improves and Midjourney becomes a reference point for high- aesthetic closed image generation.
View full image ↗Crowd and flying-craft scene generated with Midjourney V5 by Michael Howeely in March 2023, from his cross-version experiment.
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Source · Midjourney Realism: August 2022 vs March 2023 ↗RESEARCH ACCOUNT
A photographic tendency changes prompting and selection.
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-02
Release and use
V5 was released in March 2023. Compared with V5.1, the developer describes more photographic results and a need for longer prompts. These are characteristics of use, not evidence that its outputs have the documentary status of photographs.
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Change in creative practice
A photographic appearance directs judgement toward lighting, materials and bodily detail, and may invite confusion between plausibility and an actual event. Generation and circulation need separate records. Choosing a photographic language is an aesthetic decision; declaring a synthetic origin is a further question of presentation and responsibility.
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Sources for this account
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Continue with a comparative question
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Midjourney V5.1.
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Midjourney V6.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 2023-03 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2023-03
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Midjourney V5
https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/33329788681101-Legacy-Features
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Provenance, translation & verification
Timeline entry #186 · Model / service
Research materials & supplement references · 1
GenAI Visual Release Chronology Research Master · p. 13 · R061
Date as recorded: 2023-03
Midjourney V5 ↗
Midjourney V5
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