Golden-Hour Forest Café Couple Selfie

Create an ultra-realistic cinematic fashion editorial portrait of a young adult East Asian couple taking a spontaneous selfie outdoors during golden hour in a tranquil forest café. Use the supplied face reference image at full identity strength, keeping facial identity and proportions consistent.

The lean young man has a slim athletic build, naturally textured dark-brown hair, a defined jawline, warm-toned skin with visible pores, and subtle Korean-inspired grooming and makeup. He leans affectionately toward the woman, kissing her cheek, with one arm naturally around her waist. He wears a luxurious cream heavyweight knitted cardigan with oversized ribbing over a light neutral shirt, with a fine silver chain necklace.

The young woman has a slender figure, luminous porcelain skin with realistic texture, softly sculpted features, feathered brows, long separated lashes, muted coral lips, soft brown eye makeup, vivid grey-green eyes, and glossy black hair in loose waves with a minimalist black ribbon. She faces the smartphone camera with a playful expression and her tongue slightly out. She wears a light-blue striped button-up shirt beneath a tailored soft-grey knit vest, a deep burgundy satin necktie, and a delicate chain shoulder bag. She casually holds a pastel-pink fruit smoothie in a clear takeaway cup with condensation and a matching straw.

Show accurate facial anatomy, natural body positioning, correctly formed fingers and hands, and believable fabric construction, texture, seams, wrinkles, and tension. Apply controlled professional posing with ControlNet at strength 1.2.

Frame the scene as a low-angle smartphone selfie looking slightly upward toward eye level. A premium flagship smartphone dominates the blurred lower foreground while the couple stays sharply focused. Surround them with tall leafless trees, softly glowing string lights, distant woodland cabins, earthy woodland textures, and faint mountain silhouettes. Golden sunlight filters diagonally through the trees, illuminating dust and subtle haze; warm string lights form creamy bokeh. Use warm amber highlights, earthy browns, muted greens, and cool blue-grey wardrobe tones, with refined cinematic grading, delicate film grain, premium HDR tonal separation, and subtle bloom.

Use directional sunset light, with warm highlights on one side of each face and velvet-soft shadows on the other. Include natural reflected light, realistic subsurface skin scattering, physically accurate eye reflections, and soft hair rim light. Preserve believable uneven outdoor evening illumination without harsh artificial contrast.

Apply the Rule of Thirds, Golden Ratio, central composition, subtle symmetry, leading lines from trees and string lights, balanced negative space, and immersive foreground framing. Use shallow depth of field (f/1.8), a 50mm-equivalent lens, realistic optical compression, creamy cinematic bokeh, sharp facial detail, hyper-detailed skin pores, premium editorial storytelling, contemporary Korean fashion photography, and emotional authenticity. Photorealistic, lifelike fine-art realism, ultra-high resolution, captured on a Sony Alpha A7 IV with auto-adjusting ISO.

Negative cues: low quality, low resolution, blurry face, oversharpening, overprocessed HDR, plastic skin, excessive beauty filter, unrealistic anatomy, asymmetrical face, duplicate body parts, extra fingers, malformed hands, crossed eyes, inconsistent identity, distorted selfie perspective, unnatural expression, exaggerated tongue, poor lighting, flat shadows, harsh flash, oversaturated colors, cartoon, anime, CGI, 3D render, illustration, painting, watermark, logo, text, compression artifacts, chromatic aberration, lens dirt, awkward pose, cropped limbs, unrealistic fabric folds, floating accessories, deformed smartphone, unrealistic hair physics, motion blur, cluttered background.

Generation settings: --ar 9:16 --iw 2 --stylize 150 --v 6 --q 2

Prompt credit: DeKu