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Clockwork Fairy: Bound in Time
Create a photoreal editorial portrait of a reference-identified woman suspended upright inside two complete, crossing clock gears, with calm acceptance and dramatic amber light.
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- Reference_image (image) · Required watermark (text) · Optional · Default: ⓒyulim_mood
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- Photorealistic_live_action_image (image)
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Editorial: Narrative Editorial — Clockwork Fairy: Bound in Time.
Film/Capture:
Create ONE vertical 3:4 photoreal live-action photograph of ONE adult woman. Digital capture graded to evoke Kodak Vision3 500T: concentrated champagne-gold light against charcoal darkness, restrained saturation, moderate organic grain, gentle highlight rolloff and readable shadows. Strong light-to-shadow separation comes from controlled illumination, not crushed blacks. One coherent perspective and material treatment.
Reference Identity:
PERSON-REFERENCE IMAGE MODE. Use the designated adult woman's reference as the sole facial identity source. Preserve reference-visible facial shapes, sizes, positions, proportions, underlying skin tone, apparent age, asymmetry and distinctive marks. Let the image define facial anatomy. Do not beautify, idealize, blend identities, substitute a generic face, change age or erase age cues. Reference lighting does not constrain the scene. Preserve visible body proportions; otherwise use plausible adult anatomy.
Hair:
TARGET-HAIR PARTIAL OVERRIDE MODE. Change only length and tied structure: extend hair to mid-back and release ties. Preserve reference color, texture, parting, fringe, hairline and root volume. Loose lengths divide over shoulders, chest and back. One small brass clock-hand hairpin above one temple.
Wardrobe and Makeup:
A wingless time fairy in a FABRIC minidress. Bronze-brown silk dupioni corset-inspired bodice with stitched shaping seams, visible weave, flexible folds and opaque lining. Mid-thigh voluminous skirt of champagne organza, smoke-gray tulle and chiffon over opaque fitted lining, radial pleats and ribbon-like hems. Bronze is the cloth color, not metal.
Small brass cog charms at the waist and one small spring buckle are isolated accents. No armor, metallic coating or metal skirt. Black elbow-length mesh gloves, fine brass cuffs, tiny cog earrings, sheer black stockings with sparse below-knee wire accents, bronze-brown satin pointed-toe ankle-strap heels.
Fine chains attach to garment eyelets at shoulders, upper arms, waist and thighs. Main tethers use reinforced waist seams and a concealed textile back harness; no neck chains.
Absolutely NO WINGS, wing frames, back-mounted fans or wing-shaped ornaments.
Thin neutral satin makeup retains skin color and texture. Champagne-gold eyelid shimmer, taupe shading, fine brown lash-root liner, separated lashes, natural brows, faint rose-beige blush and dried-rose velvet lips. Makeup changes surface color and reflectance only.
Scene:
At the center of a deep Gothic clock tower, the wingless time fairy becomes the still heart of its mechanism. The fictional time field suspends her upright. Two complete O-shaped thin gears surround her full figure. Tethers straighten as her fear settles into serene acceptance. Only faint distant chains and sparse illuminated dust remain.
Gear Geometry — Highest Priority:
Exactly TWO complete, closed, thin annular clock gears, each a continuous O-shaped loop. Every ring has an uninterrupted 360-degree circumference: no missing segments, C-shapes or open arcs. Narrow brass bands, shallow plate thickness and fine external teeth; open centers without solid disks or spokes.
The gears have the SAME THREE-DIMENSIONAL CENTER POINT and similar diameters. They are NOT two nested concentric outlines in one plane. Their planes are slightly misaligned around their shared center.
Ring A tilts approximately 12 degrees around a vertical diameter; ring B tilts approximately 12 degrees in the opposite direction around a slightly diagonal diameter. This small angular difference makes their outlines cross in projection while keeping both loops nearly round and O-shaped. No lateral displacement of their centers, no extreme edge-on ellipse and no spherical gyroscope cage.
Use a small depth separation at projected crossings so the solid bands never intersect physically. Each closed loop is independently traceable, with clear front/back occlusion at crossings.
BOTH COMPLETE rings, including every tooth at top, bottom, left and right, fit comfortably inside the image. The combined assembly occupies approximately 80–84 percent of frame width, leaving visible margins. Each ring extends above the woman's head and below both shoes. She floats entirely within their openings.
No ring is a head-only halo or horizontal foot platform. No extra rings, luminous orbit trails, giant cropped arcs or thick industrial rims.
Camera and Composition:
Full-frame camera, 75mm lens, approximately f/6.3. Frontal camera aimed through the shared center; no low angle, side view or camera roll. Preserve both slight opposing gear-plane tilts and their crossing contours.
Keep BOTH COMPLETE O-shaped loops within the frame with clearly visible margins, including lower arcs beneath her shoes. Do not enlarge the assembly into cropped crescents. The entire woman is visible from hair to heels inside both openings.
She is upright on the shared vertical centerline. Her stable pose and balanced composition contrast with the slightly angled floating body of the preceding moment. The gear contours remain angularly offset, not flattened into coplanar nested circles.
Keep her face, hands and main attachment points unobstructed. The back and shoulder silhouette is clean, with no wing-like structure. Maintain useful focus on her and the nearby gear bands; distant shaft details soften.
Pose and Expression:
Torso lengthened, rib cage subtly lifted, upper back in a shallow natural curve. Pelvis stable without an extreme lumbar arch. Legs extend downward, knees softly unlocked, ankles relaxed inside securely fastened heels. Both feet float above both lower arcs, touching nothing.
Arms extend long beside and slightly away from the torso, hands below hip level, shoulders lowered. Fingers open gently with natural spacing and aligned wrists.
Chin lifts slightly while facial features remain readable. Eyes half closed, brows and forehead relaxed, lips softly closed and jaw released: calm transcendence, no pain grimace.
Hair and lightweight cloth settle into slow soft curves. Silk weave, organza translucency, chiffon folds and opaque lining remain distinct. Cog charms are small isolated accents.
Tethers:
Main chains connect reinforced waist seams and the concealed textile back harness to stationary guide eyes beside the inner ring. Show understandable endpoints and small localized cloth gathers. Neck, fingers and joints remain unconstricted.
The time field supports her weight; tethers position her. Chains do not wind onto spinning teeth, and no metal passes through the body. Separate the bands in depth at apparent crossings.
Lighting:
A tall narrow opening high at camera-left front admits warm amber light from several meters away. The aperture produces a concentrated slightly softened beam. Her raised face meets it: one forehead plane, cheekbone, nose ridge, collarbone and upper bodice receive coherent gold light; opposite cheek and underside of the chin stay shaded.
The same light reaches angled portions of both gear bands and satin shoes. Brass gives small sharp highlights; cloth has softer directional sheen. Preserve enough low-level ambient exposure to trace both complete O-shaped outlines through their shaded arcs.
Gears do not emit light. Dust appears only within the beam; catchlights match the aperture. No luminous halo, automatic beauty fill, double outline or face-only whitening.
Essential Anchors:
Two uninterrupted O-shaped gears completely contained within the frame; the same center with slight opposing angular offsets and crossing contours; an upright wingless woman, taut tethers and calm half-closed eyes. Maintain the same recognizable reference face.
Watermark:
Place exactly “${watermark:ⓒyulim_mood}” at bottom center, clean white, moderate opacity, medium calligraphic italic signature about twice a small signature, thin hairlines and thicker downstrokes. Keep all characters and underscore readable with safe bottom margin. No outline, shadow, glow, box or plaque.
General Exclusions:
Wings, face redesign, identity drift, age changes, beauty-filter skin, malformed hands, extra fingers or limbs, broken joints, chains penetrating skin, metallic dress, CGI rendering, illustration, artificial HDR, global bloom, clipped highlights, crushed blacks and excessive sharpening.
Scene Exclusions:
Open or cropped loops, concentric coplanar circles, shifted centers, horizontal foot platforms, head-sized halos, extreme ellipses, thick industrial rims, extra rings, feet touching teeth, wing-shaped back ornaments.
Parameters
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