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 underwater fashion portrait.
Subject: the subject suspended underwater. Bare face, no
visible makeup, eyes closed, lips softly parted. The subject wears an off-white
open-weave crochet dress — a fitted sleeveless bodice with a scooped neck and thin
straps, gathered at an empire waist into a full A-line skirt with an open pointelle
pattern and a scalloped picot hem falling to mid-thigh, the skirt lifted and drifting
around the subject.
Action: floating upright and weightless, both arms out to the subject's sides but angled about 20
degrees below the shoulder line, elbows softly bent, wrists loose and hands relaxed with
fingers drifting downward. Head tilted back, chin lifted, face turned up toward the
surface. Legs close together and nearly straight, the near leg drifting forward toward
the lens and the other trailing behind, knees soft.
Setting: clear turquoise-green freshwater, the sun a soft white bloom above and behind
the subject's head through a rippling surface. Slender green stems rise around the subject to broad round
lily pads floating on the surface in soft silhouette. Fine silver bubbles scattered
through the water, denser near the surface.
Visual style: photoreal underwater photography, rippling caustic light dappled in soft
ovals across the subject and the dress, gentle particulate haze, muted
blue-green water.
Composition: low angle from below and in front of the subject, camera roughly 40 degrees beneath
the subject and tilted upward. Moderate wide lens with mild, natural perspective — the near leg
reads slightly larger, nothing more. The subject's body running diagonally through the frame with
the head in the upper third at natural scale. Cropped at the subject's shins so the feet fall
outside the frame.
Lighting: backlight from the sun above and behind, soft god rays angling down through
the water, cool shadow in the lower depths, warm dappled light across the subject's front.
Text inside: none.
Constraints: never shoot from directly beneath the subject, never use a fisheye or extreme
wide-angle lens, never enlarge the legs or shrink the head, never splay the legs into a
wide V, never straighten the arms into a rigid T at shoulder height, never show the feet
or the soles, never open the subject's eyes or level the chin, never let the dress hang static,
never tip the subject into a backward-falling pose, never oversaturate the water into hard teal,
never add fish or coral, 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.
