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Tightly Cropped Two-Person Studio Portrait

Create a photorealistic studio portrait of two people with a precise, close facial crop and balanced lighting.

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First_person_reference_photo (image) · Required Second_person_reference_photo (image) · Required
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Studio_portrait (image)
Create one photorealistic studio portrait featuring two people together. Use the uploaded photos only to establish their identities. Preserve each person’s individual features, age, gender, hair, eye color, and natural skin pigmentation. Do not carry over the source photos’ lighting, white balance, exposure, camera angle, or color filters.

The person in the first photo must always be on the left, wearing a black T-shirt. The person in the second photo must always be on the right, wearing a white T-shirt.

Use one consistent camera setup: vertical 9:16 frame, camera straight-on at eye level, with no upward or downward angle, and an 85 mm portrait lens perspective. Keep both faces in the same plane of focus and equally sharp. Place both people at the same distance from the camera; neither person should be closer or farther away. Their heads must be the same scale in the frame, held upright, with faces directed straight toward the lens.

Position the people with their shoulders touching and the inner hairlines at their temples touching, leaving no vertical strip of background between their heads. Give each face its own half of the image with equal visual emphasis.

Use a tightly cropped composition: the left person’s outer eye must be completely beyond the left edge of the frame, and the right person’s outer eye must be completely beyond the right edge. Show only one eye from each person, along with their noses near the outer edges, lips, and chins. The side edges must crop the faces themselves, not just the hair. Place the two visible eyes approximately at 25% and 75% of the image width, aligned at about 42% of its height; place the chins at about 72% of the image height. Preserve natural facial proportions by achieving this composition through cropping and positioning. Do not widen the frame to show either face in full.

At the bottom of the frame, show only necks and the upper portions of the T-shirts—no arms and no chest-up portrait.

Use identical lighting for both people: a large diffused frontal light source above the camera, with even, soft fill from both sides. Set the scene in a bright studio with a plain, light, neutral gray-beige background. Use a consistent neutral white balance of 5500 K, soft contrast, bright midtones, and preserved detail in the white T-shirt.

Express an angelic realism through gentle lighting and calm expressions, without a separate color filter: no added yellow cast, orange tan, or cool gray tint. Preserve the people’s natural differences in skin tone under the same lighting. Keep lifelike skin texture and natural-looking eyes; avoid beauty retouching that makes skin look plastic and avoid blur.

Do not change the camera setup, scale, side cropping, positioning, or lighting based on the source photos. No collage, dividing line, text, halos, or wings.

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