Golden Editorial Portrait

Create a highly realistic cinematic fashion portrait using the uploaded user photo as the ONLY source of the subject’s identity. Preserve the user’s exact recognizable facial identity and natural features: facial structure, proportions, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, jawline, cheeks, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, and all distinctive characteristics. Do not copy or blend the identity of the reference subject into the user. Do not beautify, reshape, slim, age, de-age, masculinize, feminize, or otherwise alter the user’s identity. The user’s gender presentation and recognizable appearance must remain unchanged. The uploaded user photo provides WHO the person is; the reference image determines HOW that person appears in the scene.
Recreate the reference image as accurately as possible: a vertically framed, waist-up to medium-full fashion portrait of the subject standing upright and facing almost directly toward the camera. The body is centered with a slight natural asymmetry, shoulders relaxed, arms hanging naturally downward along the sides, creating an elegant editorial posture. Keep the subject’s head upright with a subtle natural tilt and the face oriented toward the camera. Reproduce the reference’s calm, composed, slightly serious expression: relaxed facial muscles, gently closed or naturally relaxed lips, soft eyes, subtle confidence, and a quiet introspective mood. The subject’s gaze is directed toward the camera, with natural eye contact matching the reference. Do not use the facial expression, gaze, or head position from the uploaded identity photo; reconstruct the expression and gaze from the reference while keeping the user’s exact identity.
Dress the subject in a vivid mustard-yellow/golden monochromatic fashion outfit matching the reference: a structured long-sleeved yellow high-neck/turtleneck top or fitted fashion blouse with a clean minimalist silhouette, subtle tailoring and natural fabric folds. The garment should cover the neck and torso, have long sleeves extending toward the wrists, and maintain the same saturated warm golden-yellow color throughout. Preserve realistic fabric texture, seams, folds, and slight wrinkles rather than making the clothing look digitally perfect. Do not add unnecessary jewelry, accessories, patterns, logos, text, or decorative elements that are not visible in the reference.
Recreate the reference hairstyle only as a styling direction, while preserving the user’s own identity and natural hair characteristics. The hair should appear dark, voluminous, medium-length, loose and naturally tousled, with soft irregular waves/curls framing the face and some strands falling naturally across the forehead and cheeks. Keep the user recognizable and do not replace their facial identity with the reference person’s appearance.
Place the subject against a simple dark olive-gray/brown interior wall with a minimalist studio-like atmosphere. The background should be plain and softly textured, with no distracting objects, text, logos, furniture, or scenery. On the right side of the background, reproduce the strong vertical warm light area visible in the reference, suggesting sunlight entering through an unseen window or architectural opening. The light should create a bright creamy-beige vertical patch behind the subject and strong elongated shadows across the wall and clothing.
Use dramatic natural late-afternoon sunlight as the primary lighting. Reproduce the reference’s warm golden illumination falling from the side/front-right direction, producing high-contrast cinematic shadows across the yellow clothing, face, neck, and background. Include distinct soft-edged yet visible shadow bands and shapes crossing the torso and lower face area, as though sunlight is passing through a window frame or nearby architectural structure. Maintain realistic skin highlights and shadow transitions, with warm amber highlights and deeper neutral-brown shadow areas. The lighting should feel photographic and naturally imperfect rather than artificially rendered.
Camera: vertical portrait orientation, approximately 4:5 aspect ratio, eye-level camera positioned directly in front of the subject, medium-full/waist-up framing, natural perspective similar to approximately a 50mm lens. Keep the subject large within the frame while leaving a modest amount of background visible around the head and shoulders. The composition should feel like a high-end editorial fashion photograph, with the face near the upper central region and the yellow outfit dominating the lower portion of the frame. Avoid extreme wide-angle distortion, excessive background blur, or dramatic camera tilt.
Use shallow-to-moderate depth of field: the user’s face, eyes, hair, and clothing should remain highly detailed and sharply rendered while the background gradually becomes softer but still recognizable. Preserve realistic pores, fine hair strands, subtle skin texture, natural fabric detail, accurate anatomy, realistic hands and fingers where visible, and physically believable shadows.
Overall visual style: premium cinematic fashion photography, contemporary editorial portrait, warm analog-film character, sophisticated minimalist composition, rich golden-yellow wardrobe against a muted dark olive-gray background, dramatic window sunlight, soft film grain, subtle tonal depth, natural contrast, realistic color grading, refined photographic texture, and an authentic high-end magazine aesthetic. The final image must look like a real professionally photographed portrait rather than an illustration, CGI render, or AI-generated face.
CRITICAL PRIORITY: the uploaded user photo determines the exact identity and facial appearance; the reference determines the expression, emotion, gaze, head position, body pose, clothing, composition, lighting, environment, camera perspective, and overall style. Preserve the user’s identity without compromise while recreating the reference scene as faithfully as possible. No text, watermark, logo, artificial beauty filter, facial morphing, identity blending, exaggerated makeup, plastic skin, distorted anatomy, extra limbs, malformed hands, or unnecessary objects.