"Pondicherry French Quarter Editorial Portrait"

Edit this photo. Keep the subject's exact facial bone structure, eye 
shape and color, nose shape, lip shape, jawline, and skin tone 100% 
identical to the original photo. Body build and proportions unchanged. 
This is non-negotiable.

LIGHTING SETUP (as a real photographer would dial it in): Key light — 
soft late-afternoon sun bouncing off the pastel-colored colonial walls 
of the French Quarter, acting as a warm natural key from camera-left, 
diffused by the narrow street's shade. Fill — soft ambient light 
reflecting off the light-colored cobblestone street, gently lifting 
shadows at roughly a 2:1 ratio. Rim light — a gap between buildings 
lets a soft warm sunbeam graze her hair from behind. Catchlights in 
her eyes should be warm and soft.

LENS & OPTICS: Simulate an 85mm lens at f/2.0 — flattering facial 
compression, background rendered as soft creamy bokeh with blurred 
mustard-yellow and blue colonial facades, bougainvillea vines, and 
old wooden shutters, gentle fall-off in sharpness away from the focal 
point, faint natural vignette at the corners.

FILM/COLOR SCIENCE: Warm pastel heritage film response — sunlit 
highlights bloom softly rather than clipping, shadows lifted gently 
with a warm ochre tint rather than crushed black, rich mustard-blue-
terracotta midtones balancing naturally against her skin tone.

Style: A breezy pastel or white cotton dress, a wide-brimmed straw 
hat held in one hand or worn loosely, minimal fresh makeup, hair 
softly wavy, simple gold jewelry.

DIRECTED POSE (as if a photographer is instructing her in real time): 
Walking along the quiet cobblestone street past a mustard-yellow wall 
with blue wooden shutters, caught mid-step with one hand lightly 
holding the brim of her hat, body angled at three-quarters to the 
camera, head turned back over one shoulder toward the lens.

GENUINE DIRECTED EXPRESSION: A soft, cheerful smile with gently 
crinkled eyes, chin very slightly lowered — the natural composed look 
right after a photographer says "keep walking, then glance back at 
me," not a stiff posed grin.

RETOUCH PIPELINE: Frequency-separation-style retouching — smooth 
tonal transitions on skin while fully preserving fine pore-level 
texture and natural color variation under the warm street light. 
Subtle dodge-and-burn to retain natural facial planes, no flattened 
or washed-out glow.

FINISHING: Fine film grain overlay at low opacity, very slight 
chromatic softness at the frame edges as a real lens would render, no 
digital sharpening halos, natural imperfect crop as if not perfectly 
composed in-camera.

Ensure zero facial distortion, correct hand anatomy, and consistent 
shadow direction matching the warm street-level key light.

Copy the complete prompt and use your own reference photos where requested.