Old-Master Inspired Portrait
Image Prompt
Create one vertical 9:16 image: a portrait photograph for a magazine feature, staged as an old-master sitting, of the woman in the attached photo, seated like an old-master sitter before a mottled celadon-and-bronze painted canvas, one statement piece of gold catching the light.
FACE MATCH - TOP PRIORITY: The attached photo is the identity source only. She is that exact woman, instantly recognisable, never a lookalike: same hairline, hair colour and texture, brows, eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, jawline, chin, cheek width, skin tone, any mole, freckle or scar in its exact place, and every facial proportion. Never beautify, slim, smooth or age the face; any makeup sits on her own features without reshaping them. Take nothing else from the photo - not its light, expression, clothes, pose or background.
FRAME: Seated, hair to just below the knees, her figure filling the frame height; camera 3 metres away at chest height, 85mm lens.
BODY: One real adult with two arms and two hands, the body continuing naturally below the frame; each visible hand four fingers and a thumb, its fingers lying naturally side by side; every limb unbroken, doing only what is described. Head in true scale to her shoulders - never a big head on a small body.
SCENE: A hand-painted mottled canvas in celadon and bronze; a solid walnut-brown block seat at knee height. Nothing else.
WEARING: A deep maroon Kanjivaram davani over a mustard-gold silk pavadai with a broad maroon zari border; a fitted maroon raw-silk blouse with elbow sleeves; one antique-gold temple necklace resting on the collarbone. Her own hair, in a low bun with a centre parting, unadorned.
POSE: Seated on the front half of the block, hips and shoulders turned together about 25 degrees to camera-right, knees together angled right; both hands resting on the near knee, one on top of the other.
GAZE: Face returned to near frontal, eyes straight into the lens. Poised: lips closed, corners lifted slightly and evenly.
LIGHT: Key: a large octabox, neutral white balance, at camera-left about 45 degrees and high. Fill: a white bounce at camera-right, two stops under the key, keeping her skin its true tone. The gold a step dimmer than her face. Her face takes the key like the rest of her: the brightest, sharpest thing in frame, a catchlight in each eye.
PHOTOGRAPH: A true photograph on a real camera, not an illustration or 3D render: visible pores, individual hair strands, real brocade and silk; never retouched smooth. One grade - honeyed highlights with deep bronze shadows - with skin tone kept true.
TEXT: No text, logo or watermark anywhere; the canvas and seat are plain, every pattern shapes with no letters.
FINAL CHECK: The face is the exact woman in the attached photo, every feature matching, lit by this key - if any feature differs, it is wrong. One intact adult body, limbs and hands exactly as described, head true to scale. Vertical 9:16, no text.