In my experience it doesn’t require that much cherry picking if you use a carefully crafted prompt. For example: “ A professional photography of a software developer talking to a plastic duck on his desk, bright smooth lighting, f2.2, bokeh, Leica, corporate stock picture, highly detailed”

And this is the first picture I got: https://labs.openai.com/s/lSWOnxbHBYQAtli9CYlZGqcZ

It got it a bit strong on the depth of field and I don’t like the angle but I could iterate a few times and get a good one.