- Category
- Photography
Gothic Halloween Candlelit Portrait
Create a realistic, vertical Halloween editorial portrait of a woman in a gothic candlelit setting, using a reference image to preserve her face and hair.
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Example images
Prompt template
- Format
- Text Parameterized
- Inputs
- reference_image (image) · Required signature_top (text) · Optional · Default: By Annet signature_bottom (text) · Optional · Default: prompt: @annet_k.01
- Outputs
- portrait (image)
Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values
before using this prompt. See parameters
and defaults below.
Create a high-quality, realistic vertical photograph using the face from the reference image without any changes or distortions. Preserve the recognizable facial features exactly.
Create a dark Halloween gothic portrait of a woman seated directly behind a table, photographed from approximately the waist up. Center her facing the camera straight on, maintaining intense direct eye contact. Her torso leans slightly forward toward the table. One elbow rests on the tabletop while her raised hand bends elegantly beneath her chin, fingers relaxed near her jaw. Her other forearm rests horizontally across the table behind the decorations. Her expression is serious, mysterious, and controlled, with slightly parted lips.
She wears a fitted black gothic corset with a low lace-trimmed neckline and long semi-transparent black floral-lace sleeves. Her hair has exactly the same structure and length as in the reference image, worn extremely voluminous and loose, swept upward and outward around her head with intentionally messy individual strands. Use dramatic dark smoky eye makeup and deep dark lipstick, but preserve the original facial anatomy and natural skin texture without plastic smoothness.
Crowd the table in the immediate foreground with Halloween decorations: three carved jack-o’-lantern pumpkins glowing warmly from within, realistic human skull props between them, several short burning black candles, scattered dry autumn leaves, and dark fabric. Behind her, place tall antique brass candlesticks with dripping black candles. Show several bats flying across the smoky background at different distances, with faint bare branches and drifting mist visible behind them.
Let candle flames and glowing pumpkins provide the primary illumination, casting warm flickering highlights across her face, collarbones, lace sleeves, pumpkins, and skulls while the surrounding room remains dark. Use deep shadows, a smoky atmospheric background, rich contrast, shallow depth of field, subtle cinematic grain, realistic candlelight, and realistic skin texture. The result should be luxurious dark Halloween editorial photography rather than an illustration or 3D art.
Place a two-line author signature at the bottom of the image. The top line reads “${signature-top:By Annet}” in luxurious, elegant calligraphic script with flowing handwritten lettering and high-contrast strokes. The bottom line reads “${signature-bottom:prompt: @annet_k.01}” in a smaller, simple, clean sans-serif printed font, clearly readable.
Parameters
Replace each placeholder with your own value, or use its default when one is provided.
${signature-top:By Annet}
signature-top
Default: By Annet
${signature-bottom:prompt: @annet_k.01}
signature-bottom
Default: prompt: @annet_k.01
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