Noir Editorial: The Setup

Format

Text Parameterized

Inputs

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

Outputs

noir_editorial_photograph (image)

Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values before using this prompt. See parameters and defaults below.

Create ONE vertical 3:4 photoreal noir film-still-style photograph showing one continuous scene. Use digital capture graded to evoke Kodak Vision3 500T: restrained saturation, fine visible organic grain, natural color separation, and smooth highlight rolloff. Use deep burgundy, velvet green, matte black, and limited amber. Create severe local contrast through lighting and occlusion while retaining texture on lit surfaces and gentle tonal information in shaded skin. Avoid globally crushed blacks, artificial HDR, aggressive sharpening, and global bloom.

REFERENCE IDENTITY: Use the provided adult woman's reference image as the sole facial identity source. Preserve her actual facial feature shapes, sizes, positions, proportions, underlying skin tone, apparent adult age, natural asymmetry, and distinctive marks. Let the reference define facial anatomy directly. Do not beautify, idealize, reshape, blend identities, or substitute a generic fashion-model face. Do not make her younger or older, erase age cues, or add age-changing wrinkles. Preserve reference-visible body proportions; otherwise use plausible anatomy without invented measurements. Reference clothes and lighting do not define this scene. Show one woman only.

HAIR: Fully replace the reference hairstyle with a polished 1990s dark-brown updo. Gather long hair completely into a firm French twist on the upper back of the head, immediately below the crown. Make a deep part on her anatomical left; raise the front section into a broad sculpted S-curve sweeping toward her anatomical right temple. Use smooth controlled volume, sleek sides tucked behind the ears, and a clean exposed nape. No loose fringe or flyaways. Enclose all hair length in the twist; no hair falls over the shoulders, chest, or back. The final silhouette has a high curved front and compact rear twist. Exclude conflicting source styling. Preserve the reference face during hair replacement.

WARDROBE AND STYLING: Dress her in a deep-burgundy silk-satin long qipao with a high stand collar and a narrow, elongated vertical teardrop keyhole immediately below the collar at the center chest. Use fine seams, a stable closure, and realistic fabric weight; highlights follow the satin weave and folds. Drape a matte-black tailored jacket with firm padded shoulders over both shoulders, with her arms outside the sleeves. Its weight rests on her shoulders and upper back; its panels hang under gravity. Do not change the dress color or neckline.

Use semimatte medium-coverage foundation retaining natural skin texture and fine tonal variation. Groom dark-brown brows following their existing shape. Apply charcoal and deep-plum semismoky shadow concentrated near the lashes and outer corners; thin black liner extending into a long tapered wing; separated lashes; and restrained outer lower-lash shading. Add very faint muted-plum blush on the outer cheeks. Use matte deep purple-burgundy lipstick within the original lip boundary, retaining natural lip texture. No facial reshaping or skin whitening. Give her short-to-medium softly squared nails with glossy opaque black polish and small reflections only where the lights strike.

SCENE: A composed female gambling-house madam silently studies the opponent directly across the table before play begins. It is late night in a windowless basement room, with still air and localized cigarette smoke. Deep-green walls and dark timber recede into near-black outside the pool of light.

SET AND ACTION: She sits upright on a low-backed chair, hips supported by the seat and back slightly away from the backrest. Green velvet is stretched over the rectangular table. Her anatomical right index and middle fingers hold one slim cigarette, its filter lightly touching one corner of her lips. Keep the fingers away from the central face. Her anatomical left hand loosely cups the side of a low tumbler of amber whisky, close to her body. The glass base rests on the table; her hand does not lift it. Her left forearm is supported near the table edge. A compact stack of small rigid Korean hwatu cards sits near the table center. The cards have dark-red backs and traditional floral fronts, not Western playing-card symbols.

On her left, a heavy glass ashtray rests beside the tumbler. At the farther table corner on her right, a low clear vase contains dark-plum anemones with black-purple centers and deep-burgundy carnations. Keep the vase subdued and below the face. No scattered banknotes yet.

EXPRESSION: Have her look directly into the lens as if meeting the opponent's eyes. Use slightly lowered upper lids, a relaxed brow and cheeks, a level chin, and no smile. Her lips exert only enough pressure to steady the filter. Convey control through stillness rather than exaggerated facial tension.

CAMERA: Full-frame digital camera, 75 mm lens, approximately f/5.6, about 1.7 m away. Use an extended chest-up composition from the entire updo to below the chest, including both shoulders, cigarette hand, and whisky hand. Position the camera slightly below eye level and angle it gently upward. Center the face horizontally; leave about 8% of image height above the highest hair. The narrow strip of table and complete tumbler occupy the lower frame. Keep both eyes and facial landmarks readable; hands remain sufficiently resolved. Background softness develops behind the subject.

LIGHTING: A small, tightly flagged tungsten spotlight about 1.4 m above the table directs a narrow downward pool from the crown area toward the table center. It catches the elevated front hair, nose bridge, part of the upper lip, hand tops, and glass rim. Keep eye sockets deeply shaded but the gaze legible; do not bury the eyes or add frontal fill. A separately flagged low-output light on her right grazes the tabletop and props, with almost no spill onto her face. Any rear edge light remains subordinate and localized. Catchlights, if visible, follow the real sources.

A fine wisp from the burning tip rises; a faint trace of recently exhaled smoke drifts beside the mouth. Only smoke within the spotlight becomes luminous, leaving eyes, nose, and lips unobscured. Satin produces narrow highlights, the jacket absorbs light, and the velvet remains diffuse. Do not neutralize or brighten the face separately.

ESSENTIAL ANCHORS: Keep the reference face, sculpted updo, and burgundy qipao intact. Show one cigarette with valid finger-and-lip contact; the tumbler's weight is supported by the table. Keep believable jacket weight, glass reflections, and smoke buoyancy. No cigarette crossing the eyes, oversized tumbler, or smoke veil across the face.

WATERMARK: Add the exact text "${watermark:ⓒyulim_mood}" at bottom center as a fixed graphic overlay, medium signature size (approximately twice a small watermark), with a safe bottom margin. Use clean white at moderate opacity and elegant calligraphic italic lettering with thin hairlines, thicker downstrokes, connected lowercase letters, and a pronounced rightward slant. Preserve the copyright symbol and underscore. No outline, shadow, glow, embossing, box, or plaque.

AVOID: Beauty-filter skin, waxy smoothing, artificial wet skin, facial redesign, age alteration, extra people, malformed hands, fused or extra fingers, interpenetrating props, floating objects, inconsistent perspective, source hairstyle conflicting with the specified updo, hair fused into clothing, clipped highlights, or artificial luminous outlines.