Library Study Before Sunset — The Moment of Focus

Format

Text Parameterized

Inputs

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

Outputs

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 Moment of Focus.

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. Separate brown-and-navy flannel, aged wood, autumn foliage, and believable skin color.

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 reference-visible hair length, color, texture, curl pattern, parting, fringe, and natural root volume. Arrange the existing long side and back lengths loosely down, with a few gravity-led strands falling beside the cheek without covering either eye. Change only the placement needed for this loose study posture; do not alter hair length or color. No finished ponytail or bun.

3. Scene and objects
A quiet university-library corner-window seat on a clear autumn afternoon approaching sunset. The adult student is absorbed in preparing for midterm exams. A large closed window extends behind her and along her anatomical left side; outside are golden-yellow and muted red foliage and a campus walkway. Indoor air is still.

An aged matte wooden desk holds a thick open course textbook and an open handwritten notebook directly before her. An open compact laptop sits farther to her anatomical left, with its screen dim enough not to illuminate her face. Highlighters and a pen lie beside the notebook. A takeaway coffee cup and a small matte tumbler stand beyond the study area. An adjustable desk lamp occupies her anatomical right-front desk corner and is OFF. Exactly one black fabric-covered hair elastic rests loosely around her anatomical RIGHT wrist. Keep objects clear of her face and writing hand.

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 is seated securely in the chair and leans slightly toward the desk with released shoulders and only a small chin dip. Her anatomical RIGHT thumb, index, and middle fingers hold the pen, whose tip touches the notebook as she writes. The ring and little fingers curve naturally for support. Her anatomical LEFT fingertips hold down the textbook page edge without penetrating the paper. Forearms rest lightly on the desktop.

Her eyes remain directed down at the book and notes, never at the camera. Slightly heavy eyelids suggest study fatigue while her gaze stays focused. Brows show restrained concentration without a deep frown; lips are gently closed, cheeks quiet, and jaw relaxed. No posed smile. The dropped shoulder seams and loose shirt create ease through clothing, not a smaller redesigned body. Flannel compresses beneath the forearms and forms gravity-led folds along the forward-leaning torso.

6. Camera and framing
Full-frame camera, 65mm lens, approximately f/5.6, about 1.6–1.9 m from the subject, adjusted to fit the action. Camera at seated eye level, positioned about 30 degrees to her anatomical RIGHT of a frontal view. Use bust composition from the lower chest to above the head, with a narrow bottom strip showing the book, notebook, and complete writing hand. Do not crop through wrists. Leave 12–15 percent of frame height above the head and position the face slightly below vertical center.

Keep the eyes, mouth, and pen-to-paper contact sufficiently readable. Allow natural progressive background softness, preserving recognizable window and campus forms rather than a flat blur layer. Keep mullions and bright patches away from facial landmarks. Avoid close-range wide-angle distortion.

7. Lighting and physical anchors
Late-afternoon sunlight enters from the closed corner window behind her and to her anatomical LEFT. Its lateral section supplies warm oblique light across the left cheek, side hair, and window-facing shoulder; its rear section lights selected rear-facing strands. The opposite cheek and frontal torso remain darker. Only weak natural reflections from matte wood and paper soften local shadows. The desk lamp is off; ceiling fixtures do not illuminate the subject. No flash, reflector, or added frontal portrait light.

The same window direction governs highlights on the page, writing fingers, flannel, and watch glass. Flannel absorbs light diffusely; watch glass catches only a small directional reflection. Cast shadows follow the sun direction and window-frame occlusion. Any eye catchlight must come from a physically visible portion of the window. Preserve window color and fabric detail without clipping. 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, face redesign, perfect symmetry, plastic skin, malformed hands, extra fingers, floating pen, pen missing the paper, fused page and fingers, camera gaze, finished ponytail, duplicated hair elastic, wrong watch wrist, unrequested hair-length change, shirt slipping off shoulders, clipped hands, frontal fill light, artificial catchlights, blown-out window, HDR, or oversharpening.