Photograph a Sunlit Stained-Glass Panel from a Reference Photo

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Reference_photo (image) · Required

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Stained_glass_window_photograph (image)

Use only the supplied photo as your reference. First inspect its contents: identify and count the main subjects (people, animals, or buildings); note their poses, the direction their heads and bodies face, their fur patterns or hair, clothing colors, and anything they wear or hold. Also note two or three large, simple background shapes, such as a horizon, hill, wall, body of water, doorway, or tree, as well as the direction and time of day of the light. Preserve the subjects and elements actually present in the photo; do not add new ones.

Create exactly one vertical 2:3 image. It must be a photograph of a real stained-glass panel with sunlight passing through it—not an illustration of stained glass and not a colorized photograph.

The panel is a flat, rectangular piece about the size of a book, made from separate colored glass pieces joined by lead came. Every boundary between colored pieces must have an evenly sized, slightly raised dark-gray lead strip that blocks light. Show small solder joints where three or more strips meet. A thick lead border surrounds the entire panel. Hang it from the window frame with two small loops and thin copper wire.

Every colored area is a separate piece of glass, cut with straight or gently curved edges; never make it look like color painted onto one sheet. Pieces in direct sunlight glow brightly, while shaded pieces appear duller. Let the color vary naturally within each piece, like real glass, with subtle streaks, mottling, tiny bubbles, and grain-like texture. Some pieces may be clear or frosted. Depict the photo’s main subjects with a few large pieces so they remain recognizable from across the room: use one or two pieces for a head and a few more for a body, with one small, dark glass piece for each eye. Fur and fabric should be represented by shaped glass pieces, not photographic texture. If the photo contains whiskers or flyaway hairs, allow only those individual strands to remain photographic as they cross the glass; short-haired subjects should transfer cleanly into the glass design. Simplify the background behind the subjects into three or four broad bands of glass, omitting small, distant details.

Photograph the panel indoors, as if casually photographed at home. Show it hanging in a window, with the sunlit outdoors behind it blown out to white and unreadable. Include some of the window frame and nearby wall or sill. Light passing through the glass should cast soft patches of color onto the sill or adjacent wall. Shoot from a slightly off-center angle, and show a thin reflection of the room crossing the glass surface. The panel should occupy between 0.50 and 0.80 of the image height.

Keep the main subjects recognizable and faithful to the photo: preserve their number, species or type, hair, clothing colors, carried or worn items, poses, and facing directions. Someone familiar with the photo should immediately recognize its subjects.

Failure conditions: Do not show any text, numbers, logos, or trademarks anywhere in the image. No two colored areas may touch without a lead strip between them. The panel must contain at least 20 glass pieces. Color variation within a single piece must not look smoothly airbrushed; it should read as streaks, mottling, or bubbles. Do not leave photographic skin, fur, fabric, or leaf texture on the glass panel, except for the individual whiskers or flyaway hairs described above. Keep the number of people and animals the same as in the photo. Show exactly one panel, not a pair or a row of panels. The panel must be illuminated by transmitted light and hanging in the window, never opaque or resting on a desk.