Velvet Eclipse — The Light That Found Her

Format

Markdown Parameterized

Inputs

face_reference_image (image) · Required creator_credit (text) · Optional · Default: DeKu subject (text) · Optional · Default: an adult East Asian woman

Outputs

generated_portrait (image)

Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values before using this prompt. See parameters and defaults below.

# Velvet Eclipse — The Light That Found Her

**Prompt credit:** ${creator-credit:DeKu} (attribution only; do not render as image text.)

Create an intimate, ultra-realistic cinematic close-up portrait of ${subject:an adult East Asian woman}, using the supplied face image as the identity reference with strong reference influence (the source specifies 150%; retain the supplied `--iw 2` setting). She emerges from almost complete darkness in an intentionally invisible, mysterious interior or unlit studio. A narrow shaft of warm directional light reaches her face, hair, shoulder, and the upper edge of her garment; use the darkness as extreme negative space for a haunting fine-art chiaroscuro effect.

She faces the camera at very close range, head gently tilted diagonally toward one shoulder and chin subtly lowered. Her quiet, dreamy, slightly melancholic expression has naturally parted lips and relaxed eyes looking toward the lens. Loose strands of hair cross her cheek and forehead for a candid, imperfect photographic feel. Use a tight head-and-shoulder crop; place her head in the central-right region, with the face occupying about 45–55% of the image and extensive pure-black negative space around her. Hair strands subtly lead the eye toward her eyes and lips. No mirror, phone, hotel room, or visible environmental objects.

**Face and makeup:** Preserve realistic skin texture, visible pores, tiny irregularities, subtle blemishes, and faint natural under-eye texture. Use understated warm natural makeup: luminous thin skin tint, subtle peach-rose cheek color, almost no contour, naturally straight dark brows with individual hairs, a warm beige/taupe eyelid wash, very thin dark-brown upper-lash definition, separated lashes, softly illuminated inner eyes, and muted coral-peach lips with a moist satin finish and natural edges. Add tiny directional-light highlights on the nose bridge and cheek. No heavy foundation, exaggerated highlight, beauty-filter smoothing, or plastic skin.

**Hair and clothing:** Very long, straight deep espresso-brown to near-black hair, loose and falling down both sides of the head and shoulders into the black background. Include wispy strands across the forehead, eyebrow, cheek, and jaw; warm chestnut highlights on individual strands; natural root density, flyaways, slight strand separation, imperfect alignment, realistic shine, and deep shadow absorption. She wears a minimal white/off-white off-shoulder garment, only partly visible in the tight crop and darkness. The exposed shoulder is softly illuminated. The gathered elastic neckline has tiny wrinkles, puckered seams, and lightweight cotton/linen-like texture, with uneven folds and subtle warm reflected highlights. No prominent accessories or jewelry.

**Lighting and mood:** Use strong directional side light raking across the face at approximately 45 degrees, like a narrow low window beam or carefully flagged tungsten/daylight source. One facial plane receives warm amber illumination while the opposite side falls rapidly into near-black shadow. Create harsh chiaroscuro contrast, a delicate nose shadow, soft cheek highlight, illuminated shoulder edge, tiny eye catchlights, and subtle hair rim light. Preserve imperfect light falloff rather than evenly lighting the face. Deep crushed blacks should transition gradually into warm brown shadows around the hair. Environmental detail is almost entirely absent; faint airborne dust may appear only inside the light beam. Mood: ethereal, nocturnal, mysterious, vulnerable, serene, dramatic, dreamlike, and nostalgic.

**Photography and rendering:** Photorealistic professional DSLR portrait with a Kodak-film-inspired aesthetic: warm highlight response, slightly faded peach skin tones, amber/brown midtones, restrained saturation, crushed blacks, fine organic film grain, subtle halation around bright skin highlights, gently softened microcontrast, and faint vintage color contamination. Retain natural imperfections such as flyaway hair, pores, tiny blemishes, uneven shadows, and garment wrinkles. Simulate natural daylight softened by diffusion, mixed with strong directional illumination. Prefer a 50mm-equivalent portrait rendering at extremely close distance and f/1.8 for believable facial proportions and shallow depth separation. The source also specifies a professional DSLR look inspired by Nikon D850 and ZEISS Distagon T 35mm, at 1/200s and ISO 100; treat this as an alternative camera-lens inspiration, with 50mm preferred for this portrait. Deep underexposure should protect highlights while allowing shadows to collapse into black. Use minimal sharpening, slight vignette, faint lens softness, mild edge chromatic aberration, realistic optical falloff, no HDR shadow lifting, and no artificial skin smoothing. Aim for high-resolution, 8K texture fidelity while retaining authentic analog softness. For a landscape interpretation use f/8–f/11; for this portrait retain f/1.8.

**Avoid:** plastic or waxy skin, excessive retouching, oversharpening, HDR glow, a bright background, visible room, artificial neon, excessive makeup, malformed or crossed eyes, duplicate features, warped shoulders, extra limbs, distorted anatomy, fake-looking hair strands, oversaturated color, flat frontal lighting, perfect symmetry, excessive bokeh circles, CGI, illustration, anime, text, watermark, or logo.

`--ar 2:3 --iw 2 --stylize 150 --v 6 --q 2`