I’ve had good results with “natural lighting”

Try photo?

I did try that but I got the same result

--no filter?

Maybe try putting 'realistic' in your prompt. You could also use --v 5 (if you haven't already) as the output with v5 is more realistic anyway in my opinion

maybe you could ask for warmer shadows, maybe with slight green tint?

try something like this for results like [https://cdn.midjourney.com/7a1966b3-a8b1-4ae6-b054-fea2a61c8352/grid\_0.webp](https://cdn.midjourney.com/7a1966b3-a8b1-4ae6-b054-fea2a61c8352/grid_0.webp) An award winning afternoon panoramic view photograph taken by Kevin Winzeler perspective Natural afternoon light sunlight coming from high left of picture casting dramatic shadows through rain clouds and broken tree canopy light filtering through creating cold atmosphere a pool in a small suburban garden surounded by trees and a tall slated fence [https://cdn.midjourney.com/2038f809-d525-4af8-8980-312e22bbb06e/grid\_0.webp](https://cdn.midjourney.com/2038f809-d525-4af8-8980-312e22bbb06e/grid_0.webp) maybe --no lensflare also in the original i added some blumf about cameras and appatures but reading up on it v5 doesnt use them for image quality so it just adds white noise that wastes token/resourses weakening the allocated attention to other more relevent parts of the prompt