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Noon Drift — Rooftop Portrait Shading the Eyes

Create a photoreal cinematic close-up of an adult woman on a summer rooftop, turning toward the camera and shielding her eyes from the high sun.

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

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Editorial: Cinematic Lifestyle Editorial — When Noon Drifts Slowly.

Film and capture:
Create ONE vertical 3:4 photoreal cinematic photograph as one continuous frame. Capture digitally and grade to evoke the heritage aesthetic of Fujifilm Pro 400H: faded whites, pale blue, light mint-green foliage, cool pastel separation, low midtone contrast, gently lifted blacks, fine organic grain, and smooth highlight rolloff. Use a bright, airy summer exposure with readable skin and white fabric. Preserve the short, defined local shadows of direct noon sunlight. Restrict faint neutral light bleed to intense reflections and selected sunlit edges. Do not claim physical film; avoid red halation, global bloom, HDR, and aggressive sharpening.

Reference identity:
Use the designated adult woman's person-reference image as the sole source of facial identity. Preserve recognizable facial anatomy, underlying skin tone, apparent adult age, natural asymmetry, and distinctive identity cues. Let the reference define her facial geometry directly, without redesign or idealization. Preserve body proportions visible in the reference; otherwise use plausible adult anatomy without invented measurements. The reference's clothing, background, exposure, and lighting do not define this scene.

Hair:
Preserve the reference-visible hair length, color, texture, curl, parting, fringe, tied or loose structure, volume, and silhouette. Allow only physically plausible responses to the light breeze, gravity, and slight perspiration: a few moving flyaways and minor adherence of existing nape strands. Do not introduce a new hairstyle.

Wardrobe and makeup:
She wears an oversized white cotton-voile camisole that floats loosely around the torso rather than tracing the body. It has a square neckline bordered by approximately 4 cm of vintage cotton crochet lace with repeating diamonds, triangles, grids, and linear structures; do not use floral motifs. Thin, flexible spaghetti straps rest on the shoulders. Include deep relaxed armholes, soft seams, gravity-led folds, and a free hem. Thin opaque lining covers the body panels; gentle transmitted light appears only at free fabric edges. The straps look relaxed but remain on the shoulders.
Pair it with a washed-out pale-blue, lightweight rayon A-line long skirt with a softly settled waistband, thin lining, and a hem above the ankles, and cream flat strap sandals.
Use cinematic no-makeup styling: sheer coverage with natural microtexture and a soft satin finish, visible individual brow hairs, barely perceptible beige-taupe eyelid shading, lightly separated lashes, faint rose-beige cheek color, and translucent rose lip balm. Apply only surface color and finish, preserving facial structure and underlying skin tone. Maintain realistic matte-to-satin variation rather than uniform wet shine.

Scene and environment:
Set the scene at clear midsummer noon on an old university campus rooftop. One adult woman turns toward the camera and raises a hand to shade her eyes, meeting the lens with quiet, heat-softened intimacy. A pale blue sky, softly receding light-green foliage, and distant low campus facades create a luminous summer-film atmosphere.
Keep the concrete parapet line below her face and neck. An uncapped, unlabelled clear beverage bottle stands on the parapet entirely outside the crop. Her raised hand holds no object. A faint breeze moves flyaways toward screen right.

Camera and composition:
Use a full-frame equivalent 85 mm lens, f/4, approximately 2 m away, with the camera at eye level. Make a medium close-up showing her head through the torso to just above the waist. Position her near the right third with breathing room on the left. Leave approximately 15% of the frame height above her crown. Keep the raised fingertips at least 6% inside the top border, with the shading gesture clearly readable.
Both eyes, brows, nose, lips, and jaw transition remain readable within the focal plane. Let background softness begin mainly behind the head and shoulders; do not dissolve identity-defining features with excessive shallow focus.

Pose and expression:
Her torso is gently angled, and her face and gaze address the lens. Raise her anatomical right arm, placing the hand approximately 8–10 cm above and forward of her forehead. Tilt the palm toward the high sun; the fingers are naturally separated and the wrist follows a comfortable continuation of the forearm. Keep the eyes, nose, and mouth unobstructed. Her anatomical left arm lowers naturally, with the left hand entirely below the frame.
Her upper eyelids narrow slightly from glare without a tense glabella or deeply furrowed brows. Her lips close lightly, with an almost imperceptible smile at the corners; her jaw and cheeks remain released. Convey languor and faint warmth rather than tears or a broad advertising grin.
Preserve the reference hairstyle, allowing only a few flyaways to move gently toward screen right. The raised arm creates slight tension at the right strap and armhole and diagonal folds in the loose camisole. The thin strap remains on the shoulder, visibly separate from skin and arm.

Lighting and physical anchors:
A high sun at approximately 70 degrees elevation illuminates from camera-right/rear. Direct light reaches upper hair surfaces, the top of the right shoulder, and the outward-facing raised hand. The front of the face stays moderately darker and remains readable through broad open-sky and bright-concrete reflections. Do not add frontal beauty light, flash, or reflector; do not use face-only exposure recovery or neutral white-balance correction.
Position the raised hand to intercept high sunlight approaching the upper forehead and right temple. Its separated fingers permit only short, localized strips of light and shadow across those upper planes. Keep both eyes, nose, and lips readable rather than covering them with dark stripes. Skin reflections and catchlights obey the actual light direction and occlusion.
Keep the noon sun high and outside this eye-level portrait. Do not lower it into the frame to manufacture lens flare. Allow only extremely faint neutral light bleed at genuinely intense reflections or illuminated edges. Avoid a milky veil across the face or a uniform glowing outline.
Maintain the reference's recognizable adult facial identity, anatomically coherent shoulder-elbow-wrist alignment, plausible strap tension, and an unobstructed gaze toward the camera.

Watermark:
Add the exact text “${watermark:ⓒyulim_mood}” at the bottom center as a white graphic overlay. Use elegant calligraphic italic lettering with fine hairlines, thicker downstrokes, and a clear rightward slant. Use a medium signature size, approximately twice a small signature treatment, precisely centered with a safe bottom margin. Keep every character and the underscore readable. Do not add an outline, shadow, glow, box, or background plaque.

Negative:
Avoid an alternate person, face redesign, identity blending, perfect facial symmetry, beauty-filter face, waxy smoothing, artificial wet-look skin, malformed hands, fused or extra fingers, impossible joints or contact, unrequested hairstyle changes, clipped skin highlights, featureless white fabric, floral lace, clothing fused into skin, low sunset sun, unjustified frontal fill, uniform glowing body outline, red halation, global haze, HDR, CGI, and aggressive sharpening.

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