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Analog Noir Fragrance Editorial Portrait

Create a photorealistic, low-angle fashion portrait from a reference photo, styled as a monochrome luxury fragrance campaign with subtle red light and analog film texture.

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Format
Text Parameterized
Inputs
reference_photo (image) · Required main_text (text) · Optional · Default: UNUM secondary_text (text) · Optional · Default: OPUS 1144 supporting_text (text) · Optional · Default: EXTRAIT DE PARFUM / 100 ML
Outputs
fashion_editorial_portrait (image)

Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values before using this prompt. See parameters and defaults below.

Create a highly photorealistic, cinematic conceptual fashion portrait using the uploaded reference photo as the ONLY identity reference for the main subject. The final photograph must look like the EXACT SAME PERSON from the reference was photographed in this dramatic experimental fashion setup.

IDENTITY PRESERVATION — ABSOLUTE PRIORITY:
Use the uploaded reference image as the sole source of the subject’s identity. Preserve the exact recognizable facial identity, natural facial anatomy, and apparent age. Maintain the person’s facial proportions, forehead shape, eye shape and placement, eyebrow structure, nose shape and bridge and tip, lips and mouth proportions, cheekbones, jawline, chin shape, ears, head shape, natural skin characteristics, and natural facial asymmetry. The person must remain unmistakably the same individual.

Do not invent a new person, replace the subject with a generic fashion model, create a different face, perform a face swap, redesign the facial anatomy, change ethnicity or age, masculinize or feminize the face, or change the face to fit the artistic style. Do not create an artificially symmetrical face, excessively smooth or beautify the skin, or use a beauty-filtered face. Change only the camera angle, pose, lighting, background, clothing visibility, atmosphere, film texture, red light effect, composition, and typography. The artistic transformation must come from these elements, not from changing the person’s identity.

COMPOSITION AND POSE:
Create a vertical cinematic fashion photograph, approximately 4:5 aspect ratio. Use an extreme low-angle close-up portrait, with the camera positioned significantly below the subject’s face and looking upward. The subject’s head is tilted slightly backward and upward, with chin subtly raised and neck naturally elongated, creating a strong, elongated silhouette of the neck and jawline. Show the subject primarily in a dramatic side profile or three-quarter profile. The nose, lips, chin, and forehead should form a powerful continuous silhouette against the lighter background. Place the face in the upper-middle portion of the frame and crop tightly around the head, neck, and upper shoulders. The subject should appear monumental and sculptural because of the low camera angle. Avoid a conventional passport-style or straight-on portrait.

The subject remains completely still. The expression is calm, serious, introspective, emotionally detached, quietly confident, vulnerable, and contemplative rather than aggressive. No smile, exaggerated emotion, or theatrical facial expression. Eyes may be partially closed or naturally obscured by the extreme angle and shadow.

LIGHTING AND COLOR:
Use extremely dramatic low-key lighting. The main light comes from a soft, diffused source positioned above and slightly behind the subject. Keep most of the face and body in deep shadow; only selected planes should catch soft light: the bridge and tip of the nose, upper cheekbone, lips, forehead, edge of the jaw, and subtle highlights on the ear. Create strong separation between illuminated skin and deep black shadows, while retaining facial detail. Lighting should feel photographic and physically realistic. Avoid artificial CGI-style rim lighting.

Convert the majority of the image into a rich monochrome palette of deep charcoal blacks, soft graphite gray, silver-gray highlights, warm neutral skin-gray tones, and slightly faded whites. Use high but controlled contrast, soft gray midtones, deep blacks without completely destroying facial detail, and slightly lifted film blacks. Keep the photograph almost entirely monochromatic. The red light is the ONLY strong saturated color; make it subtly desaturated rather than neon red.

RED LIGHT EFFECT:
Introduce one thin horizontal red laser-like light streak, traveling through the area around the subject’s ear, cheek, or lower face. It should appear to be a real light source passing through atmospheric haze, not a digitally pasted graphic. Create subtle red diffusion around the line, very slight red light spill on nearby skin and hair, and a gentle bloom. The effect may suggest a laser scan, infrared sensor, futuristic optical scanner, experimental fashion lighting, or analog photographic light leak, but keep it subtle and elegant. Do not make the red line excessively bright.

BACKGROUND AND ATMOSPHERE:
Use a minimal, neutral, studio-like background that is light gray or warm gray and heavily blurred, with no recognizable environment, furniture, objects, or distracting details. Create a subtle gradient from lighter gray behind the face to darker gray toward the edges. Add extremely soft atmospheric haze. Keep the background almost empty so the subject’s silhouette dominates the frame. Create extremely subtle horizontal motion blur in the background and around the red light. The subject’s facial structure must remain sharp enough to preserve identity. The atmosphere may contain faint horizontal streaking and soft analog scanning artifacts. The effect should resemble a long-exposure fashion photograph combined with experimental darkroom manipulation.

TYPOGRAPHY:
Integrate extremely minimal vertical typography directly into the photograph. Place a thin vertical column of small uppercase letters approximately through the center-lower portion of the frame, aligned beneath the subject’s face and neck. Use widely spaced, minimalist sans-serif lettering that resembles luxury fragrance advertising and experimental European fashion editorial design. Use muted gray-white typography at low opacity; keep it readable but subtle, thin, and elegant. Make it feel printed into the photographic composition rather than digitally pasted on top, and maintain generous negative space around it.

Main text: ${main-text:UNUM}
Secondary text: ${secondary-text:OPUS 1144}
Small supporting text: ${supporting-text:EXTRAIT DE PARFUM / 100 ML}

ANALOG FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHIC CHARACTER:
Give the image strong, authentic 35mm film character, with visible but refined monochrome grain across the entire image, subtle film dust, and very slight photographic imperfections. Use a professional full-frame camera and an 85mm or 105mm portrait lens, with very shallow depth of field, natural optical compression, subtle lens softness, and realistic perspective. Show natural skin pores, fine facial hairs where illuminated, realistic eyelashes and eyebrow hairs, natural skin texture, and tiny imperfections. Do not use plastic skin, excessive sharpening, or artificial skin retouching.

Use soft halation around bright highlights, slight lens diffusion, subtle motion smear in the horizontal red light, and very mild chromatic imperfections around the red light. Exposure may be slightly imperfect, as if captured on pushed black-and-white film. Avoid excessive digital sharpness, HDR, and overly clean AI-generated textures. The photograph should feel tactile and physically printed, like an old high-end analog photograph rather than a modern digital black-and-white image.

EDITORIAL DIRECTION AND FINAL QUALITY:
The overall image should resemble an avant-garde luxury fragrance campaign: minimalist European fashion photography, experimental contemporary portraiture, and dark conceptual advertising. It should feel like an image from an experimental luxury fragrance campaign photographed for an independent European fashion magazine, not conventional commercial beauty photography. Convey mystery, silence, identity, sensuality, introspection, memory, night, isolation, and minimalism.

The final image must be an ultra-photorealistic, high-resolution professional editorial photograph with authentic analog film appearance, natural photographic imperfections, realistic light physics, realistic skin texture, subtle grain, controlled contrast, and professional fashion photography. It must look like an actual photograph taken by a professional photographer using physical lighting and an analog film camera. NOT CGI, NOT 3D, NOT illustration, NOT digital painting, NOT a generic AI portrait, and NOT a beauty-filtered face.

Parameters

Replace each placeholder with your own value, or use its default when one is provided.

${main-text:UNUM} main-text Default: UNUM
${secondary-text:OPUS 1144} secondary-text Default: OPUS 1144
${supporting-text:EXTRAIT DE PARFUM / 100 ML} supporting-text Default: EXTRAIT DE PARFUM / 100 ML

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