Library Study at Sunset — The Unexpected Glance

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person_reference_image (image) · Required watermark (text) · Optional · Default: ⓒyulim_mood

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photographic_image (image)

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Create ONE vertical 3:4 photorealistic cinematic lifestyle photograph in a single continuous frame.

Editorial: Lifestyle Editorial — The Unexpected Glance.

Film and capture: Capture digitally and grade to evoke a scanned 35mm Kodak Portra 400 image: restrained saturation, fine organic grain, gentle midtone contrast, gently warm color, and smooth highlight rolloff. Retain detail in illuminated shadows while preserving darker unlit planes. Do not claim physical film was used. No HDR, automatic shadow recovery, global bloom, or aggressive sharpening. Contrast rich golden sunset highlights with subdued brown-and-navy flannel and darker frontal planes. Restrict delicate light bleed to intense window highlights.

1. Reference identity
Use the required adult woman's person-reference image as the sole source for facial identity. Preserve recognizable facial anatomy, underlying skin tone, apparent adult age, natural asymmetry, distinctive identity cues, and reference-visible body proportions, without redesign or idealization. Let the reference define facial geometry directly. Otherwise use plausible adult anatomy without invented measurements. Reference clothing, background, and lighting do not define this scene. Show exactly one adult woman; her familiar companion is represented only by the camera viewpoint.

2. Hair
Preserve the reference-visible hair length, color, texture, curl pattern, parting, fringe, and root volume. Override only the arrangement of existing gatherable side and back lengths: both hands are drawing them together behind the head toward the upper nape. Short fringe and strands that cannot reach remain naturally free. Gathered ends retain their length and hang behind the holding hand under gravity. The hair is NOT yet tied: no finished ponytail, bun, or elastic already in the hair.

3. Scene and objects
A quiet university-library corner-window seat at golden sunset, just before the sun disappears. The adult student has paused midterm-exam study to gather her hair, suddenly noticing her familiar companion looking at her. A large closed window extends behind her and along her anatomical left. Soft yellow-red autumn campus foliage and sunset sky remain recognizable outside. The indoor air is still.

An aged matte wooden desk holds a thick open textbook and an open used notebook directly before her. The pen has been put down on the notebook. An open compact laptop stands farther to her anatomical left, dim and not a facial light source. Highlighters, a takeaway coffee cup, and a small matte tumbler occupy the outer desk area. An adjustable desk lamp on her anatomical RIGHT-front corner is ON and aimed toward the notes. Exactly one black fabric-covered hair elastic is held in her mouth; it is absent from both wrists and hair.

4. Wardrobe and makeup
She wears a muted brown-and-navy tartan oversized cotton-flannel shirt with softly brushed matte fibers, substantial but pliable fabric, dropped shoulders, a conventional collar, and a buttoned front. Exactly the top two buttons are open; all remaining buttons are fastened. A concealed inner layer stays beneath the opening. Show only a natural upper-chest neckline, never exposed breasts or slipping shoulders. Both sleeves are loosely rolled twice. A small classic watch with a brown leather strap is on her anatomical LEFT wrist. Preserve the tartan scale, button arrangement, and cuff construction.

Use cinematic no-makeup styling: very thin skin tint, realistic pore scale and fine vellus hair, lightly groomed brows, barely visible beige-taupe eyelid shading, naturally separated lashes, faint rose-beige blush, and transparent rose lip balm. Retain subtle under-eye color and matte-to-satin variation. Makeup changes surface color and reflectance only; lighting determines apparent skin brightness.

5. Action and expression
She remains seated, torso nearly frontal. Both arms are raised with elbows bent outward. Her anatomical RIGHT thumb and naturally curved fingers hold the gathered hair behind her head at the upper nape. Her anatomical LEFT fingers touch and sweep reachable side strands just behind the ear, pausing midway through gathering them. Hands contact hair without intersecting it or covering the face; wrists align with forearms.

Only a short section of the ONE small black hair elastic is held lightly between her lips, slightly to one side. The remaining closed loop hangs downward with its opening readable. Her lips gently pinch the fabric; no exaggerated mouth opening, taut pulling, or hand touching the elastic.

Her chin is slightly lowered while her eyes lift to look directly into the lens. Eyelids are calmly open; brows and forehead are relaxed, cheeks neutral, and jaw released apart from the lip contact. Convey brief attentive surprise and quiet interest, without a frown, smile, or exaggerated seduction. Her hands pause as her eyes meet the viewer.

Raised arms create shoulder and underarm tension and elbow-compression folds. The collar shifts subtly backward, revealing the natural neck and upper collarbone area while both open buttons and all fastened lower buttons remain unchanged. The shirt stays on both shoulders. Do not lengthen the neck, narrow the wrists, or enlarge the neckline.

6. Camera and framing
Full-frame camera, 65mm lens, approximately f/5.6, about 1.7–2 m away, adjusted to include both arms. Camera directly in front, only 5–8 cm above seated eye level, tilted down about 3–5 degrees. She looks slightly upward with her eyes, not by stretching her neck.

Use action-inclusive bust framing from the upper chest to above the head and raised hands. Include both complete hands and bent elbows with comfortable lateral margins. Leave 12–15 percent of frame height above the highest point of the head or hands. Place the face slightly below vertical center. A narrow lower strip may show the desk and notes. Both eyes, elastic loop, and hand-to-hair contact must remain readable. Background softness begins behind the subject; window mullions avoid the eyes and mouth. No extreme high angle or wide-angle distortion.

7. Lighting and physical anchors
Low sun enters behind her and to her anatomical LEFT through clear window glass, creating strong warm rear-oblique illumination. Gold highlights touch exposed rear-facing hair strands, selected window-facing hand and forearm surfaces, and the window-facing shirt shoulder. Her head, arms, and window frame interrupt the light naturally. No uniform luminous outline around the body.

The desk lamp is approximately 50–70 cm in front and to her anatomical RIGHT, with its warm 2800–3000K emitter approximately 45–55 cm above the desk. A broad open shade is angled toward the notebook; weak peripheral spill reaches the nearby cheek, lips, lower chin, and shirt collar. Light the paper more strongly than the face. The opposite cheek and upper eye sockets retain shadow; the face stays distinctly darker than the sunlit hair and window.

Only where the lamp emitter is visible to the cornea, show a small warm catchlight consistent with its low right-front position. Do not invent large identical eye reflections. Watch glass and lip balm reflect the same lamp direction. Preserve sunset color and illuminated skin texture. No flash, reflector, ceiling fill, or separate frontal portrait light. Maintain the recognizable facial identity and all non-conflicting reference-hair features.

8. Watermark
Add the exact text “${watermark:ⓒyulim_mood}” at bottom center as a fixed white graphic overlay. Use elegant calligraphic italic lettering with thin hairlines, thicker downstrokes, and connected lowercase letters. Medium signature size, approximately twice a small treatment, with a safe bottom margin. Keep every character and the underscore readable. No outline, shadow, glow, box, or border.

Negative constraints: alternate identity, facial redesign, plastic skin, fused or extra fingers, hair passing through hands, elastic fused into lips, duplicated elastic, elastic around wrist, already tied hair, completed bun, unrequested hair-length change, enlarged chest opening, bare shoulders, cropped hands or elbow joints, extreme high angle, evenly bright face, studio catchlights, uniform glowing outline, excessive flare, blown-out window, HDR, or oversharpening.