The Black Velvet Legacy

Create an ultra-photorealistic luxury cinematic portrait of ME using my uploaded personal photo as the PRIMARY IDENTITY REFERENCE. Use the provided reference image ONLY for its composition, pose, wardrobe aesthetic, environment, lighting, and mood. Do NOT copy or reproduce the reference person's facial identity.
IDENTITY PRESERVATION — ABSOLUTE PRIORITY: Preserve my exact recognizable identity from my personal photo. Keep my natural facial structure, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, eye shape, nose, lips, cheeks, jawline, chin, ears, skin tone, facial proportions, beard and moustache pattern, hairline, and distinctive natural characteristics unchanged. I must look unmistakably like myself. Do not substitute my face with a model or generic face. Do not excessively beautify, reshape, slim, enlarge, sharpen, masculinize, or otherwise modify my facial features.
HAIR & GROOMING: Preserve my natural hairstyle and facial hair from my identity photo while giving them a polished, sophisticated appearance. Maintain realistic individual hair strands, beard texture, moustache detail, and natural skin pores.
WARDROBE: Recreate the reference's sophisticated gentleman aesthetic: a perfectly tailored black waistcoat/vest over a crisp white long-sleeve shirt, with the shirt slightly relaxed at the collar. Add an elegant luxury wristwatch and a subtle ring. Premium fabrics, realistic stitching, natural wrinkles and physically accurate textile texture.
POSE & EXPRESSION: Seat me comfortably and confidently in a luxurious black leather executive armchair. My body should be relaxed and slightly reclined. One elbow rests naturally on the armrest while my hand gently supports the side of my face. The opposite arm rests naturally across the chair/table area. Look directly toward the camera with a calm, confident, slightly mysterious expression. Relaxed shoulders and completely natural anatomy.
SETTING: Place me inside an exclusive, sophisticated dark wood private library/study. Surroundings include floor-to-ceiling shelves filled with elegant leather-bound books, subtle antique décor, a classic globe, warm table lamp, dark wooden furniture, and tasteful luxury accessories. Keep the environment realistic and understated.
FOREGROUND: Include a polished dark wooden desk in the foreground with a few tasteful luxury objects, subtly out of focus. Create convincing foreground depth without distracting from my face.
LIGHTING: Use cinematic low-key lighting with a warm practical lamp illuminating one side of the scene. Soft warm key light gently illuminates my face while maintaining natural facial contours. Add subtle rim lighting around my hair and shoulders. Deep but detailed shadows, realistic highlights, natural falloff and excellent dynamic range.
CAMERA & COMPOSITION: Professional luxury editorial photography, 50mm–85mm lens, eye-level camera, natural perspective, shallow depth of field, precise focus on my eyes and face, realistic optical bokeh, sophisticated composition matching the reference image. Portrait-oriented framing with my upper body prominently visible.
PHOTOREALISM: Extremely high-resolution professional photography. Realistic skin pores and texture, individual facial-hair strands, natural hair detail, authentic fabric fibers, leather grain, metal watch reflections, realistic hands and fingers, accurate anatomy, physically correct shadows and reflections. No plastic skin, no CGI, no artificial-looking face.
COLOR GRADING: Rich warm cinematic tones with deep blacks, dark brown wood, subtle amber highlights and natural skin tones. Refined contrast, restrained saturation, premium luxury editorial color grading.
MOOD: Sophisticated, intelligent, mysterious, powerful and timeless — like an expensive international men's fashion campaign photographed inside a private executive library.
QUALITY: Ultra-detailed, photorealistic, 8K-quality rendering, professional commercial photography, realistic depth, natural skin texture, crisp eyes, detailed clothing, cinematic atmosphere.