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The Secret Bus of Yellow Gerberas: Anomalous Happiness
Create a cinematic surreal editorial photograph of an adult woman sitting peacefully on the rear bench of a flower-filled city bus.
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- Inputs
- Designated_reference_image (image) · Required watermark_text (text) · Optional · Default: ⓒyulim_mood
- Outputs
- Cinematic_surreal_editorial_photograph (image)
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Editorial: Surreal Editorial — The Secret Bus of Yellow Gerberas: Anomalous Happiness.
Film/Capture:
Create ONE vertical 3:4 photoreal cinematic photograph of one adult woman seated at the rear of an old city bus, in one continuous scene. Capture digitally and color-grade to evoke Kodak Vision3 500T: restrained saturation, delicate visible organic grain, soft highlight rolloff, gentle midtone contrast and deep locally readable shadows. Faded teal structure, charcoal tailoring and yellow gerberas remain distinct. Preserve white silk and yellow petal texture under the overhead shaft. No physical-film claim, artificial HDR or global bloom.
Reference Identity:
PERSON-REFERENCE IMAGE MODE. Use the designated adult woman's reference as the sole source of facial identity. Preserve the same recognizable person, her reference-visible facial features and their actual shapes, sizes, positions and 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 when supplied; otherwise use realistic anatomy without invented measurements.
Hair:
REFERENCE-HAIR PRESERVE MODE. Preserve the reference-visible hair length, color, texture, curl, parting, fringe, tied or loose structure, volume and overall silhouette. Allow only natural gravity, movement and contact with clothing or the seat.
Makeup and Skin:
Thin sheer soft-satin base preserving natural tonal variation, pores and fine vellus hair at a scale appropriate to the shot. Naturally groomed brows, faint beige-taupe eyelid shading, a fine brown line between the lashes, separated lashes, softly diffused low-saturation rose-beige blush on the cheeks, and muted rose satin lips within their natural boundaries. Makeup changes surface color and finish only. Retain natural skin texture and regional matte-to-satin variation; scene lighting determines visible color casts and shadows.
Scene and Environment:
A secret bus interior almost absorbed by yellow gerberas. A commuter sits peacefully in the exact center of the five-place rear bench, looking directly at the camera with a small, inexplicably contented smile. She is the only person present. The familiar bus remains identifiable but its boundaries seem to dissolve into flowers. Indistinct pale sky appears through partially visible windows. Surrealism is limited to impossible flower growth, selected local emissions and an employee badge whose portrait has become a flower.
Layered Set:
Foreground: small portions of aisle-seat edges on either side, leading toward the rear bench. Midground: the woman, her grounded loafers and a narrow open approach to her seat. Background: faded teal vinyl rear seating, worn window frames, cream ceiling ribs and masses of yellow gerberas. Flower stems emerge from soil pockets below the seats and wall gaps, lengthening impossibly and bending over structural ribs toward the ceiling. They remain individual green herbaceous stems with recognizable gerbera heads, not woody vines or climbing roses. Leave several bench edges and window segments visible. Flowers surround but do not cover her face, hands or knees. Loose yellow petals rest on her skirt. A folded charcoal tailored jacket lies on one side of the rear bench. A broken ceiling opening is visible above her, with a few dust and pollen particles visible within its light shaft; nearer particles may form soft optical bokeh.
Camera and Composition:
Full-frame digital camera, 32mm lens, approximately f/5.6, distance about 3m, camera centered in the aisle about 1.1m above the floor and aimed nearly level. Use an environmental seated full-body composition including the entire head, hands, knees, both loafers and their floor contact. Keep the woman substantial and central rather than a tiny distant figure. Leave approximately 12% frame-height headroom above her hair for the ceiling opening and flowers. Preserve a clear face-sized opening in the flower mass. Repeat seat edges and window rhythms in depth to suggest an elongated bus, while preserving coherent local perspective. Her centered face and limbs retain natural proportions with no close-range wide-angle distortion. Focus on her face and seated body, with progressively softer foreground and background. The employee badge is a secondary detail, not an enlarged insert.
Wardrobe and Badge:
White silk blouse with the top two buttons undone and sleeves rolled to the elbows, retaining layered cuff folds, placket seams and restrained satin reflections. Charcoal-gray fine-woven below-knee H-line midi skirt, small pearl stud earrings and black leather loafers. Loose yellow petals sit on the skirt's actual folds rather than becoming a printed pattern. A narrow dark lanyard descends from her neck to a small rectangular employee badge resting against her blouse. Inside the portrait box is a simple yellow gerbera image instead of a human photograph. No miniature face, extra portrait or oversized readable lettering on the card. The card remains a solid object with edges and a natural contact shadow.
Pose and Expression:
She sits centrally with pelvis supported by the cushion and back resting comfortably against the bench. Knees are together; both feet rest flat on the thin soil-covered bus floor, ankles relaxed. Her anatomical left hand lies on her lap and her right hand rests gently across it, fingers naturally curved and fully visible, wrists unforced. The cushion compresses beneath her hips and back; skirt folds gather beneath the hands and follow her thighs. She lifts her chin only slightly and meets the lens directly. Brows and forehead are relaxed, eyelids softly open, jaw released, lips gently closed with subtly raised corners. The cheeks engage only a little. No teeth, broad grin or threatening expression: quiet happiness whose cause remains uncertain.
Lighting:
The key is a bright white shaft entering vertically through the broken ceiling opening approximately 1m above her crown. The aperture limits the beam: it lights the crown, upper shoulders, gently raised facial planes, overlapped hands and knees. Forehead and upper cheeks receive light while brow undersides and the underside of the chin retain natural shadows. The beam continues to the floor in a direction consistent with the opening; the bench ends remain dimmer behind ceiling and flower occlusion. Nearby selected gerbera centers emit faint yellow light, locally warming petals, the closest sleeve and skirt edges, hands and teal upholstery. Remaining ceiling fluorescents add a much weaker cyan-green cast to aisle surfaces and metal ribs. Keep white key light, cyan ambient light and yellow emission spatially distinct. Do not add a frontal beauty light or neutralize the face separately. Any catchlight is small, overhead and physically visible only where eyelid angle allows. Pearls, leather, silk and metal reflect their actual nearby sources. Only particles inside the beam sparkle.
Essential Direction:
Her quiet centered smile is the emotional focus; the flower replacing her badge portrait is a small unsettling discovery. Preserve the human figure's clear silhouette amid the dense flowers, the dark structural remnants of the bus and the open space above her head. Keep both soles grounded, hands resting on fabric, petals supported by folds and stems separate from anatomy. Maintain the same recognizable facial identity from the designated reference.
Watermark:
Add the exact text "${watermark-text:ⓒyulim_mood}" as a fixed graphic overlay at the bottom center. Use a medium signature size, approximately twice a small signature, with a safe bottom margin and every character and underscore inside the frame. Refined white calligraphic italic lettering with moderate opacity, thin hairlines, thicker downstrokes, connected lowercase letters and a pronounced rightward slant. No outline, shadow, glow, embossing, box or plaque.
Negative Prompt:
plastic skin, beauty-filter face, waxy smoothing, artificial wet-look skin, malformed hands, fused or extra fingers, oversized eyes, perfect facial symmetry, clipped highlights, featureless white fabric, artificial HDR, CGI rendering, over-sharpening, identity blending, alternate person, face redesign, age alteration, hair fused into face or clothing, floating hair, unrequested hairstyle change, global bloom, cutout subject, face-only white balance, flowers fused with body, smiling face printed on badge, giant badge insert, distorted seated limbs, floating feet, flowers blocking face, cropped head or loafers, rainbow lighting.
Parameters
Replace each placeholder with your own value, or use its default when one is provided.
${watermark-text:ⓒyulim_mood}
watermark-text
Default: ⓒyulim_mood
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