Sunlit Plaid Portrait

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ULTRA-REALISTIC 8K UHD SAME-TO-SAME PHOTOGRAPHIC RECREATION — use the uploaded SCENE REFERENCE IMAGE as the absolute visual blueprint. Recreate the photograph with maximum possible visual, structural, anatomical, compositional, tonal, and photographic fidelity. Do not redesign, beautify, modernize, stylize, or creatively reinterpret the reference.

SUBJECT & IDENTITY: A young male subject seated naturally in a wooden woven-seat armchair, shown in a relaxed three-quarter seated pose while looking toward the left side of the frame. Preserve the subject's exact visible facial identity and anatomy from the reference. If a second image labeled [MY FACE] is provided, replace ONLY the original subject's facial identity with [MY FACE] while keeping the reference hairstyle, head position, expression, lighting, perspective, clothing, body, and every other scene element unchanged. Preserve exact face shape, forehead, temples, cheekbones, jawline, chin, eyes, eye spacing, eyelids, eyebrows, nose structure, lips, ears, hairline, natural asymmetry, skin tone, pores, texture, age appearance, and unique facial characteristics. No face reconstruction or beautification.

HAIR: Dense naturally curly/wavy black hair with substantial volume, slightly tousled texture, irregular natural strands, rounded silhouette, loose curls around the forehead and temples, realistic individual hair fibers, natural shadowing between strands.

EXPRESSION & POSE: Calm, neutral, introspective expression; lips naturally relaxed; gaze directed toward screen-left. Head turned approximately three-quarter profile toward the left. Shoulders relaxed. Torso slightly reclined into the chair. One arm rests naturally downward toward the lower-left foreground while the opposite arm is bent and resting along the chair arm/back area. Hands and fingers remain anatomically natural and accurately positioned. Preserve the exact body posture, limb angles, hand placement, and relaxed seated geometry.

CLOTHING: Oversized/draped dark brown-black plaid/checkered button-up overshirt with a soft heavyweight cotton/flannel-like texture. Dense thin cream, beige, and muted gray intersecting checks; two large chest flap pockets; central button placket; open/relaxed collar; sleeves naturally rolled or pushed toward the forearms; realistic fabric folds, creases, stitching, seams, thickness, and compression around the seated body. Light beige/off-white relaxed trousers with natural wrinkles and soft fabric volume.

ACCESSORIES: Dark black round wristwatch with a substantial case and black strap on the wrist resting toward screen-right; subtle metallic ring on one finger of the same hand. Preserve exact scale, placement, reflections, and proportions.

ENVIRONMENT: Warm minimalist interior. Matte beige/taupe plaster wall occupying the background. A tall leafy indoor plant appears along the far left side, partially cropped, with long narrow green leaves and a simple neutral planter. A low dark wooden side table sits beneath/near the plant with several stacked books; the upper visible book has understated light-colored typography. The subject sits in a dark warm-brown wooden armchair with broad wooden frame members and a woven natural cane/rattan seat and back. Preserve the exact furniture construction, textures, positions, and visible background objects.

COMPOSITION & FRAMING: Vertical portrait photograph in approximately 2:3 / 1022×1536 composition. Tight but spacious environmental portrait. Subject occupies the central-right portion of the frame. Head positioned around the upper-middle region. Full upper body and substantial lower-body area visible, with the trousers extending toward the lower-left foreground. Chair extends through the right and lower portions of the image. Plant remains partially cropped at the far left. Maintain the exact relative scale and placement of every major element. No reframing, unnecessary cropping, object removal, or composition redesign.

CAMERA & OPTICS: Professional full-frame DSLR/mirrorless photographic look, approximately 50–65mm full-frame equivalent focal length, natural perspective with minimal distortion, camera positioned around seated chest/eye level, predominantly straight-on perspective with the subject's body angled naturally. Moderate shallow depth of field: subject remains highly detailed while distant background transitions softly out of focus. Natural lens rendering, realistic edge falloff, subtle optical softness, no artificial computational blur.

LIGHTING: Strong warm natural sunlight entering from the upper-left/front-left direction, creating a distinctive large diagonal geometric patch of bright sunlight across the beige wall behind the subject. Directional sunlight illuminates portions of the subject's face, hair, shirt, forearm, and trousers while other areas fall into deep but naturally detailed shadow. Preserve the exact light/shadow geometry, including the sharp architectural diagonal shadow boundary on the wall, soft secondary shadow transitions, chair shadows, plant shadows, and facial shadow pattern.

TONAL CHARACTER: Warm earthy cinematic palette dominated by beige, taupe, dark brown, black, muted cream, olive green, and natural skin tones. Medium-low overall saturation. Rich but restrained contrast. Warm highlights, deep neutral-brown shadows, controlled blacks, subtle highlight roll-off, preserved shadow information, realistic skin luminosity. Natural HDR-like dynamic range without an HDR-processing appearance.

PHOTOGRAPHIC DETAIL: Extremely realistic skin pores and microtexture; individually resolved hair fibers; authentic cotton/flannel weave; realistic plaid intersections; detailed wooden grain; natural cane/rattan texture; subtle book-paper texture; realistic metal/watch reflections; physically accurate material response; natural contact shadows; believable ambient occlusion; realistic light scattering and skin subsurface response.

COLOR GRADING: Premium editorial lifestyle photography with warm neutral grading, slightly muted earthy tones, gentle filmic contrast, soft highlight roll-off, natural skin rendering, restrained blacks, subtle analog-film character, and very fine unobtrusive grain. Avoid excessive orange/teal grading, oversaturation, crushed blacks, artificial HDR halos, or excessive sharpening.

DEPTH & REALISM: Physically plausible depth of field and perspective. Foreground trousers and hands remain detailed, while background elements become progressively softer without losing their recognizable forms. Natural photographic bokeh only where optically appropriate. Realistic exposure, white balance, shadow density, lens response, and dynamic range.

IMAGE QUALITY: Genuine high-end professional-camera photograph, ultra-detailed 8K-quality rendering, DSLR-quality optics, physically based lighting, photorealistic textures, realistic skin, authentic imperfections, natural micro-contrast, subtle film grain, clean but not digitally sterile. The final image must look like an actual photograph captured in a beautifully lit interior—not CGI, illustration, 3D render, AI art, or an overly processed synthetic portrait.

ABSOLUTE PRESERVATION RULE: Keep the reference's exact composition, pose, facial orientation, expression, hairstyle, clothing, accessories, furniture, plant, books, wall, sunlight direction, diagonal shadow geometry, perspective, framing, proportions, color palette, depth of field, and photographic atmosphere. Change nothing except facial identity when [MY FACE] is supplied.

NEGATIVE PROMPT: cartoon, anime, illustration, painting, 3D render, CGI, plastic skin, artificial face, face morphing, identity drift, wrong facial anatomy, altered jawline, altered nose, altered eyes, changed eye spacing, changed lips, beautification, facial symmetry correction, skin smoothing, airbrushed skin, excessive makeup, age change, different hairstyle, different hair direction, beard alteration, body redesign, muscular exaggeration, distorted hands, extra fingers, missing fingers, malformed limbs, incorrect anatomy, changed clothing, different plaid pattern, missing pockets, wrong accessories, altered watch, missing ring, redesigned chair, missing plant, missing books, changed room, changed wall, changed sunlight direction, incorrect shadows, flat lighting, studio lighting, flash, neon lighting, colored lighting, excessive saturation, orange-and-teal grading, crushed blacks, blown highlights, excessive HDR, halos, excessive sharpening, oversharpening, fake bokeh, heavy blur, motion blur, chromatic aberration, fisheye distortion, wide-angle distortion, warped geometry, low resolution, noise artifacts, AI artifacts, waxy skin, unnatural textures, unrealistic reflections, duplicate objects, floating objects, surrealism, stylization, oversmoothing.