Under the Blue: Raw Summer Selfie

Format

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Inputs

Face_or_character_reference (image) · Required

Outputs

Selfie (image)

Create an extremely photorealistic, casual smartphone photograph of the adult man in the attached face or character reference. Preserve his exact recognizable facial identity, natural facial proportions, skin tone, and distinctive features. Use the attachment only as an identity reference.

The image should look like a real, slightly imperfect selfie taken outdoors on a bright, clear day—not a professional photoshoot, beauty campaign, or AI-generated portrait.

POSE & FRAMING: The man is shirtless, leaning forward slightly over the phone camera, which is positioned noticeably below his face and chest and angled upward toward him. His shoulders lean unevenly toward the camera, creating a relaxed, asymmetrical posture. His head is tilted just slightly, with his chin naturally lowered as he looks down toward the phone screen. His expression is calm and casually confident, with relaxed lips and no exaggerated posing.

Frame the image tightly from the top of his head to his upper chest and shoulders. His face occupies the central lower portion of the frame, while a large expanse of clear blue sky fills the upper half. One shoulder appears closer to the lens than the other, creating natural perspective distortion. Let the framing feel a little accidental: the head is not perfectly centered, the shoulder is partially cropped, and the camera angle is slightly awkward in a believable way.

HAIR & APPEARANCE: Keep the hairstyle and natural hair color from the attached reference unless otherwise specified. The hair looks casually tousled by a light outdoor breeze, with individual strands falling irregularly across the forehead. Avoid perfectly arranged idol hair or overly sculpted volume. Preserve authentic skin pores, subtle texture, natural under-eye detail, and realistic lip texture.

LIGHTING & ENVIRONMENT: A wide, clear California-blue sky fills the background, with only faint wisps of thin cloud. Bright natural sunlight illuminates the subject from one side, creating uneven highlights across his forehead, nose, cheekbones, shoulders, collarbones, and chest. Some areas of the face remain naturally shadowed because the phone is pointed upward toward the sunlit sky.

The light should feel like real outdoor midday or early-afternoon sunlight: crisp, direct, and slightly harsh, with natural shadow transitions. Include subtle backlighting along a few hair strands and realistic highlights on the skin. Avoid orange golden-hour tones, studio fill lighting, artificial glow, or perfectly balanced exposure.

CAMERA & REALISM: Simulate a quick selfie taken with a regular modern smartphone's front-facing camera, approximately 24–28mm equivalent. The phone is held below face level and angled upward. Use ordinary smartphone autofocus, automatic exposure, natural sharpening, and realistic computational processing.

Introduce subtle handheld imperfections: a slightly tilted horizon where visible, marginally uneven framing, tiny variations in sharpness, mild smartphone sensor noise in shadow areas, and highlights that are a little too bright in places. The image should feel captured in one spontaneous attempt rather than carefully composed.

Keep the face recognizable and sufficiently sharp, but do not make every hair strand and skin pore unnaturally crisp. Allow a faint sense of handheld movement in the least important edges while keeping the facial features naturally readable.

COLOR & TEXTURE: Use a natural blue sky, neutral skin tones, realistic skin color variation, soft shadow detail, and restrained contrast. No heavy color grading, cinematic teal-orange palette, artificial HDR, or excessive clarity. The final image should resemble an ordinary phone photo with natural imperfections.

NEGATIVE PROMPT: AI beauty portrait, professional studio photography, perfect symmetrical composition, centered passport framing, overly polished skin, plastic complexion, airbrushed face, artificial muscle definition, exaggerated shoulders, sculpted hair, excessive sharpening, fake skin pores, dramatic cinematic grading, orange color cast, golden-hour lighting, artificial rim light, glowing skin, excessive HDR, fake bokeh, distorted facial anatomy, altered identity, oversized eyes, warped shoulders, CGI, 3D render, illustration, text, watermark, logo.

FINAL RESULT: A spontaneous, slightly imperfect low-angle smartphone selfie of the same man from the attached reference, shirtless and leaning toward the camera beneath a broad blue sky. Natural sunlight creates uneven highlights across his face and shoulders, while the upward camera angle gives the image an intimate, casual perspective. His hair is slightly messy, the framing is imperfect, and the exposure is not completely controlled. The photograph should feel alive, unplanned, and genuinely captured on a phone—with natural daylight, subtle handheld imperfections, realistic skin texture, and absolutely no artificial AI-polish aesthetic.