Identity: the face, skin, body and hair are the subject's own and never change. Where a hairstyle is described below, style the subject's own hair into it; never change the hair's colour, length or texture. Apply only the outfit, makeup, hairstyling, pose and setting described below.
Create a moody spotlight portrait.
Subject: the subject from the waist up. The subject's own hair is styled swept back, with loose pieces falling at the temples.
The subject wears a black shirt buttoned to the collar under an unbuttoned black tailored blazer
with a notch lapel.
Action: standing still, shoulders square to camera, head tilted back about 20 degrees and
turned 10 degrees to the subject's left, chin raised, eyes closed, expression calm
and serene.
Setting: a plain warm-toned wall directly behind the subject with a hard-edged circular pool of amber
light cast onto it, its edge falling off sharply into near-black at the frame corners. The subject's
own shadow falls onto the wall to the subject's right, hard-edged, slightly larger than the subject and
overlapping the circle's right side.
Visual style: photoreal cinematic portrait photography, warm amber highlights against deep
unlifted blacks, fine film grain, high contrast.
Composition: vertical frame, camera at chest height, subject centred and slightly left of
frame, head in the upper third, the circle of light filling most of the background and
cropped by the top and both side edges, the subject's torso running to the lower frame edge.
Lighting: a single hard directional key from the front left, throwing the circular pool onto
the wall and a sharp cast shadow to the subject's right. Strong falloff — the blazer and shirt read
almost black with only edge definition, while the subject's face and collar catch the warm
light.
Text inside: none.
Constraints: never soften the light circle or the cast shadow — both keep hard edges, never
remove or double the shadow on the wall, never lift the blacks or add fill light to the
clothing, never open the subject's eyes, never level the chin, never square the head to the lens, never
add props, furniture, a second light source or a visible lamp, never brighten the frame
corners, never render the clothing in any colour but black, never change the subject's face, skin or body, and never change the colour, length or texture of the subject's hair — style it only as described.
Output: 3:4 vertical.
