Candid Street Photography
VoteTests whether a model can produce a believable documentary photo instead of a polished render. The difficulty is in natural skin and lighting, wet-pavement reflections, and the imperfect framing and motion blur that real street photography has but models tend to smooth away.
Voters judged on
Photorealism
Natural Skin Texture
Wet-Surface Reflections
Candid Framing
Prompt
“A candid street photo of an elderly Japanese man repairing a red bicycle in light rain, reflections on wet pavement, shallow depth of field, 50mm lens, natural skin texture, imperfect framing, motion blur from passing cars, cinematic but realistic, no stylization.”
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Challenge rankings
57 models · ranked by blind vote
Through time: how it evolved
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Head to head
4 matchups
Notable battles
The matchups worth a second look from this challenge's blind voting: the closest rivalries, the biggest upsets (a lower seed taking down a favorite), and the clashes at the top of the board. Each bar shows how the community split its votes.
GPT Image 1.5
FLUX.2 [max]
50%
50%
FLUX.2 [dev]
ImagineArt 1.5 (Preview)
50%
50%
Imagen 4.0 Fast Generate 001
GPT Image 1 Mini
100%
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Seedream 4.5
Seedream 5.0 Lite
50%
50%
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The archive
Through time
How Candid Street Photography has evolved, release by release.
2022 to 2026·
6 reigns·
57 models
The Reign Chain
6 reigns
How the crown changed hands
Every model that has held #1 on this challenge, in order. Click any era to travel through time.
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R01Inception
DALL-E 2 Apr 2022 → May 2025reigned 3.1 yrs -
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FLUX.1 Kontext [max] May 2025 → Sep 2025reigned 4 mo · overtook DALL-E 2 -
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Seedream 4.0 Sep 2025 → Oct 2025reigned 1 mo · overtook FLUX.1 Kontext [max] -
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Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Oct 2025 → Oct 2025reigned 1 mo · overtook Seedream 4.0 -
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GPT Image 1 Mini Oct 2025 → Dec 2025reigned 2 mo · overtook Gemini 2.5 Flash Image -
R06Current
GPT Image 1.5 Dec 2025 → todayreigned 7 mo · overtook GPT Image 1 Mini
Generation history
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Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image 3 takes
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Recraft V4.1 3 takes
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Recraft V4.1 Pro 3 takes
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GPT Image 2 3 takes
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Wan 2.7 3 takes
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