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Flash-Lit Late-Night Urban Portrait
Create a photorealistic nighttime street portrait of a young Asian man, preserving the identity in the supplied face reference.
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- Inputs
- Face_reference_image (image) · Required
- Outputs
- Photorealistic_portrait (image)
Use the supplied face reference to create a photorealistic image with strict identity lock, preserving the exact facial features, proportions, and true-to-life skin texture.
## SKIN & REALISM
Create natural, healthy, human-realistic skin with visible pores, fine skin texture, subtle real-life imperfections, believable tonal variation, and authentic highlights and shadows. Maintain natural skin tone and realistic texture across the face, neck, ears, and all exposed skin. Avoid plastic or waxy skin, excessive smoothing, artificial glow, porcelain skin, and heavy beauty filters.
## SUBJECT & HAIR
Depict a young Asian man with a lean, natural build, preserving the exact facial identity from the reference. He has black, medium-length, naturally messy textured hair, with loose strands falling across his forehead and partially covering his eyes. Give the hair soft, realistic volume with visible individual strands. No beard or mustache.
## SCENE
Set the portrait in a quiet urban outdoor area at night, with illuminated commercial buildings, distant apartment towers, colorful storefront lights, dark trees, and dry ornamental grass in the background. A paved walkway runs along the right side. The atmosphere should feel like a spontaneous late-night street portrait in a Korean city.
## POSE & COMPOSITION
The subject is seated low on the ground or on a low ledge, framed from the upper thighs to slightly above the head. His body faces mostly forward, with both hands casually tucked into his jacket pockets. Tilt his head noticeably to one side for a relaxed, slightly playful pose. Keep his shoulders loose and natural rather than stiff.
The subject occupies approximately 65% of the vertical frame. Keep the face and upper body as the main focus while retaining the recognizable nighttime city background.
## HEAD, GAZE & EXPRESSION
Tilt his head gently to one side, with his chin slightly raised. He looks directly toward the camera through loose strands of hair. His lips are softly closed in a subtle pout, and his expression is calm, cool, and slightly playful. Keep his eyes natural and facial muscles relaxed.
## OUTFIT
He wears a dark navy-blue zip-up hoodie with the hood up around his head, layered over a black crew-neck T-shirt. Over the hoodie, he wears an oversized black varsity-style jacket with contrasting off-white sleeves, thin white piping along the shoulders and sleeves, and multiple white graphic patches and lettering across the chest and arms. The jacket is slightly open, revealing the blue hoodie and black shirt underneath. Preserve the layered clothing, realistic fabric folds, ribbed cuffs, zipper details, and slightly glossy jacket texture.
## LIGHTING
Use direct on-camera flash photography at night. The flash clearly illuminates the face and jacket while creating natural shadows behind the subject. Include bright facial highlights, realistic skin texture, and slightly reflective eyes, against a darker urban background with colorful city lights. Maintain authentic low-light contrast without making the skin look artificial.
## CAMERA & STYLE
Create a vertical 3:4 portrait from an eye-level to slightly elevated camera angle. Use a candid smartphone-photography look, direct harsh flash, subtle digital grain, natural imperfections, realistic depth, authentic nighttime color balance, and an unposed street-snapshot aesthetic. Render photorealistic, DSLR-quality details with a raw, youthful urban mood.
## NEGATIVE PROMPT
Different identity, altered facial structure, exaggerated jawline, unrealistic facial proportions, plastic skin, waxy skin, airbrushed face, excessive skin smoothing, artificial glow, heavy makeup, beard, mustache, sunglasses, extra fingers, deformed hands, unnatural head tilt, stiff posture, incorrect clothing colors, missing hoodie, missing jacket patches, cartoon, anime, illustration, CGI, excessive blur, oversharpening, low resolution, oversaturated colors, artificial background, watermark, text overlay.
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