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 an instant-film portrait.
Subject: the subject from the shoulders up. Makeup applied to the subject's own face: no visible makeup beyond a trace of liner. The subject wears an open blue and cream plaid
collared shirt.
Action: head and shoulders square to camera, chin level, direct steady gaze into the lens,
lips softly parted, expression open and neutral.
Setting: a plain pale grey-beige wall directly behind the subject, with the subject's own soft-edged shadow
falling onto it to the subject's right.
Visual style: instant film photography — direct on-camera flash, milky lifted blacks, low
contrast, visible grain, slight overall softness, a faint warm colour cast, gentle vignetting
at the corners.
Composition: square frame, camera at eye level, head centred and filling the upper two-thirds
of the frame with a little space above the head, cropped at the collarbone, shoulders reaching
both side edges.
Lighting: hard direct flash from the camera position, flat and even across the face, falling off toward the frame corners,
a soft-edged shadow cast on the wall to the subject's right.
Text inside: none.
Constraints: never deepen the blacks or raise the contrast, never remove the grain or sharpen the
image, never smile or close the lips fully, never look away from the lens, never tilt or turn
the head, never add a second light source, rim light or coloured gel, never crop above the chin, never
add props or jewellery, 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: 1:1 square.
