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Golden Hour Together — Editorial Couple Portrait
Create a photorealistic, close-up lifestyle portrait of a stylish couple in a contemporary café, using a supplied face image as a strong reference. Includes editorial lighting, composition, anatomy guidance, and negative constraints.
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Prompt template
- Format
- Text Parameterized
- Inputs
- face_reference_image (image) · Required aspect_ratio (text) · Optional · Default: 2:3 image_weight (text) · Optional · Default: 2 stylize (text) · Optional · Default: 150 quality (text) · Optional · Default: 2
- Outputs
- Generated_portrait (image)
Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values
before using this prompt. See parameters
and defaults below.
Create a photorealistic, ultra-detailed editorial lifestyle portrait of a stylish young adult couple. Use the supplied face image as a strong reference (150%); preserve the reference’s body positions, facial angles, composition, and direct eye contact. Frame the couple closely, shoulder-to-shoulder, from a handheld smartphone selfie perspective. The woman is slightly closer to the camera, with one forearm in the foreground and one hand brushing her long hair away from her face. Give her a spontaneous, soft, confident smile. The man leans naturally toward the camera beside her, with relaxed shoulders, an elegant posture, and a calm, composed expression. Keep their chemistry and affection candid and understated.
The woman has naturally radiant fair skin with visible pores, subtle peach blush, softly sculpted cheeks, feathered eyebrows, delicate eyeliner, fine mascara, glossy nude-pink lips, minimal Korean-inspired editorial makeup, a satin complexion, a naturally flushed nose bridge, and realistic eye reflections. Her silky jet-black hair falls loosely across one side of her face, with natural movement from a gentle breeze. Add black rectangular sunglasses on her head, a refined gold chain necklace, delicate dangling earrings, and an off-shoulder neutral-toned top that reveals her collarbones and shoulders while remaining fully SFW.
The man has a sharp, clean jawline; smooth porcelain skin with subtle natural blemishes; thick, well-groomed eyebrows; expressive almond-shaped eyes; soft pink lips; and textured black hair styled upward with natural volume. Add black sunglasses on his head and a premium beige, ivory, black, and brown marble-pattern satin button-up shirt with an open collar.
Place them in a sophisticated contemporary café or architectural lounge with abundant natural daylight. Include a modern geometric ceiling with perforated patterns, soft concrete columns, distant greenery visible through open sides, and subtle urban architectural details. Use soft diffused daylight and gentle overhead illumination to create realistic facial shadows and highlights while preserving authentic skin texture. Separate the subjects from the softly blurred background with shallow depth of field. Add only subtle floating dust and natural bokeh. Aim for relaxed luxury, candid intimacy, and timeless editorial lifestyle photography.
Photographic treatment: close-up editorial fashion photography with an authentic smartphone perspective and professional portrait quality. Use a 50 mm lens, f/1.8 aperture, shallow depth of field, natural daylight, soft diffused and overhead light, cinematic uneven lighting, realistic facial catchlights, soft shadow falloff, natural reflections, high dynamic range, muted earthy tones, warm highlights, realistic dynamic range and color science, Kodak Portra film rendering, subtle cinematic film grain, natural skin rendering, visible pores and imperfections, rich tonal depth, gentle lens breathing, organic focus transition, and premium magazine-cover craftsmanship. Keep the result photorealistic, immersive, high-resolution, detailed, and SFW.
Strictly exclude rings, crosses, religious symbols, finger jewelry, hand accessories, watches, text artifacts, watermarks, logos, extra or missing fingers, fused fingers, malformed hands, deformed limbs, duplicated body parts, asymmetrical anatomy, unrealistic facial proportions, low-resolution textures, oversharpening, oversaturation, plastic skin, cartoon or CGI appearance, artificial lighting, motion blur, distortion, and cropping errors.
Maintain correct anatomical proportions, natural hand structure and finger positions, realistic wrists, elegant arm proportions, correctly aligned shoulders, accurate leg positioning if visible, balanced facial symmetry, realistic eye alignment, authentic skin folds, detailed fingernails, natural posture, seamless body geometry, and consistent lighting across all surfaces.
Midjourney settings: --ar ${aspect-ratio:2:3} --iw ${image-weight:2} --stylize ${stylize:150} --v 6 --q ${quality:2}
Parameters
Replace each placeholder with your own value, or use its default when one is provided.
${aspect-ratio:
2:3}
aspect-ratio
Default: 2:3
${image-weight:
2}
image-weight
Default: 2
${stylize:
150}
stylize
Default: 150
${quality:
2}
quality
Default: 2
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