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Thermae Florae: Rest Among Petals

Create a reference-faithful fine-art photograph of an adult woman seated beside a Roman bath, with floating flowers, physically grounded anatomy, and warm architectural light.

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

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Editorial: Fine Art Editorial — Thermae Florae: Rest Among Petals.

Film/Capture:
Create ONE vertical 3:4 photoreal fine-art editorial photograph of ONE adult woman seated beside a Roman-inspired warm pool. Captured digitally and color-graded to evoke Kodak Portra 400: restrained saturation, gentle midtone contrast, fine organic grain, smooth highlight rolloff and readable shadows. Translate Alma-Tadema's marble, flowers and classical drapery into contemporary photographic art direction. Real skin, woven cloth, stone and water. One coherent exposure and grade across the woman and architecture; no painted texture, HDR, crushed blacks or global facial haze.

Reference Identity:
PERSON-REFERENCE IMAGE MODE. Use the designated adult woman's reference as the sole source of facial identity. Preserve her actual facial features, their shapes, sizes, positions and proportions, underlying skin tone, apparent age, natural asymmetry and distinctive marks. Let the reference define facial anatomy directly. Do not beautify, idealize, blend identities or substitute a generic model face. Do not make her younger or older, erase age cues or add age-changing wrinkles. Preserve reference-visible body proportions; where unseen, use plausible adult anatomy without invented measurements. Reference pose, lighting and background do not define this scene.

Hair:
TARGET-HAIR FULL REPLACEMENT MODE. Replace conflicting reference hair with dark black-brown straight hair, center-parted without separate bangs, long enough when released to reach below the shoulder blades, fully gathered into a loose Roman-inspired bun just above the nape. Low crown volume, sides tucked behind the ears, short nape wisps, two or three jaw-length temple strands. No long loose sections over shoulders, chest or back. Small white jasmine flowers are pinned behind her anatomical left ear. A few temple and nape strands are damp. Remove only source features conflicting with this target color, length, texture, parting and tied structure.

Setting and Story:
Late spring, clear late afternoon inside a domed warm bathhouse. She sits quietly on a broad ivory-marble pool edge, both lower legs resting in the water, eyes softly closed as her left fingertips touch floating petals. Blue-green water holds scattered pink rose petals, small jasmine blossoms and a few lavender florets, with open water between irregular clusters. Behind her: mosaic wall, bronze incense vessel and folded saffron palla on dry marble. Steam rises mostly behind the woman and within the overhead light path. Keep her face, hands and knees unobscured.

Camera and Composition:
Full-frame camera, 50mm lens, approximately f/5.6, around 3.5m away. Vertical seated full-figure portrait including the head, both hands, knees, lower legs and feet. Camera slightly above seated eye level, looking down about 15 degrees from a gentle front three-quarter view. Both knees and the space between the shins must remain visible. Head upper-left, lower legs toward lower-right without overlapping in projection. Lower third: water and petals. Focus on the face with enough depth for hands and knees to remain legible. Underwater feet soften naturally but remain recognizable.

Seated Pose — Explicit Anatomical Structure:
Body-side directions are anatomical. Both hips rest securely on one level marble seat. The pelvis faces the pool without strong twisting. Both thighs extend forward from their respective hips across the seat, approximately parallel with a small gap; neither crosses the other. Both knees project just beyond the rounded edge.

Each knee bends approximately 90–105 degrees: thigh extending forward, shin descending toward the water. Both kneecaps face forward in the same general direction as their thighs and feet. Show each patellar contour and the natural narrowing below the joint. Both knees are above water and unobscured.

Both lower legs descend separately with open water between them. The waterline crosses each upper-to-middle shin, below the knees. Both ankles and feet are underwater. Both feet rest on the same broad shallow submerged step, with relaxed toes pointing forward and slightly outward. Use ordinary foot scale.

Exactly two continuous legs: each hip connects to its own thigh, knee, shin, ankle and foot. Neither leg is folded on the seat, crossed or tucked beneath the pelvis.

Her right palm supports her on dry marble just behind the right hip, elbow softly bent, fingers separated and wrist comfortably aligned. Her pelvis and right arm share her weight. Her left shoulder stays relaxed as the elbow bends to reach nearby water. Only the left index and middle fingertips touch the surface; other fingers curve loosely above it. Keep this hand outside both knee silhouettes so neither joint is hidden. Ripples originate at the fingertips.

Expression:
Eyes gently closed, brows relaxed, chin only slightly raised, neck unstrained, lips softly closed and jaw released. No exaggerated arch through the spine or forced chest lift.

Wardrobe and Accessories:
A cream-ivory linen-silk draped gown with a fine visible weave, secured by a small gold fibula at the anatomical right shoulder and a thin gold waist cord. Left shoulder and part of the upper back exposed. Two opaque overlapping diagonal folds securely cover the chest.

The skirt wraps the pelvis, buttocks and upper thighs in broad opaque layers. Its hem rests just above both kneecaps, leaving the knees and lower legs visibly separate. Keep the central overlap closed across the lap. Cloth compresses beneath the seated hips and makes shallow tension folds along both thighs. Do not create a rounded fabric mound resembling a hidden folded knee or additional limb. The outer fabric may have a few damp patches, but covered areas remain opaque. Do not extend long fabric into the water between the legs.

A loose garland of small roses and jasmine rests on the covered upper chest. Fine gold earrings, a thin gold bangle on the supporting right wrist, and one delicate gold chain at the left ankle, subtly visible underwater. Bare feet. The saffron palla remains folded on dry marble behind her.

Lighting:
The dominant source is late-afternoon sunlight entering a deep-rimmed dome aperture above camera-left, about 6m above the seat. A slanting beam reaches the shoulder top, part of the collarbone, the marble seat and nearby water. The aperture and architecture define its shape; rising steam reveals only its physical path.

Outside the beam, warm brown-beige shadows retain readable skin and stone detail. Pale marble returns weak warm bounce to the face, neck and hands. Turquoise water adds restrained reflected color to water-facing surfaces. Faint water caustics appear only on appropriately oriented surfaces near the illuminated water. No separate frontal beauty light or unsupported rim light. Keep highlight texture in skin, white cloth and petals.

Physical Anchors:
Compression folds beneath the hips and a contact shadow beneath the supporting palm. Both thighs rest on stone; knees project beyond the edge without intersecting it. Two shins enter water separately. Modest consistent refraction preserves recognizable limb continuity, without abrupt lateral offsets or thickness changes. Both feet meet the submerged step. Petals float freely; ripples and reflections follow the actual contacts.

Skin and Makeup:
Thin water-resistant sheer base with natural pores and tonal variation, soft bronze-taupe eyelid shading, a very thin brown tightline, separated lashes, transparent rose-beige cheeks and hydrated rose-beige lips. Makeup changes surface color and finish only. Fine droplets remain distinct from cosmetic sheen. No uniform oil coating or plastic wet-look surface.

Maintain the same recognizable reference face and apparent age while applying the specified target hairstyle. Prioritize clear knee articulation, separate lower legs, plausible foot scale and grounded body support.

Watermark:
Add exactly “${watermark:ⓒyulim_mood}” at the bottom center as a fixed graphic overlay. Medium-size refined white calligraphic italic signature, with thin hairlines, thicker downstrokes and a rightward slant. Center horizontally with a safe bottom margin. Keep the full signature and underscore inside the frame. No outline, shadow, glow, box, border or other text.

Negative:
Identity drift, generic beauty-filter face, altered age, plastic skin, extra or fused fingers, additional legs, duplicated feet, folded leg on seat, crossed thighs, hidden knee joint, thigh continuing straight into an ankle, reversed knee, twisted pelvis, disconnected shin, missing ankle, oversized foreground foot, mismatched waterline, broken limb disguised as refraction, fabric mound resembling a third knee, floating hips, stone intersecting knees, transparent chest or pelvic fabric, clipped highlights, featureless white cloth, HDR, CGI, over-sharpening, conflicting source hairstyle, floating flowers, steam obscuring the face or knees.

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