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Dreamy Lace Curtain Golden Hour Portrait
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The complete prompt
Use the uploaded user photo as the **ONLY identity reference** for the main human subject. Preserve the user's exact recognizable identity with maximum fidelity: facial structure, face shape, facial proportions, forehead, eyebrows, natural eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, mouth structure, cheekbones, jawline, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, hair texture, facial hair if present, and every distinctive facial characteristic. **Do not copy the reference subject's identity. Do not beautify, redesign, slim, widen, age, de-age, or otherwise alter the user's face. The final person must unmistakably remain the same person from the uploaded photo.**
Recreate the reference image's **exact visual concept, pose, expression, gaze, composition, clothing, environment, lighting, and photographic aesthetic**, while replacing only the reference person's identity with the user's identity. Treat the uploaded photo as “WHO the person is” and the reference image as “HOW the person appears in this scene.”
Create a vertical, ultra-realistic cinematic fashion portrait of the user standing closely behind delicate **white/cream lace curtains**. The composition is a tight portrait/upper-body crop, approximately **4:5 vertical framing**, with the subject centered slightly toward the middle-right and viewed from a subtly low camera angle. The camera is positioned very close to the subject, creating an intimate editorial portrait with realistic facial proportions and mild wide/normal-lens perspective, approximately 50mm-equivalent. The subject fills most of the frame from the top of the hair to below the chest.
Reproduce the reference pose precisely: the subject stands upright behind the sheer curtains with the shoulders relaxed. The head is slightly tilted and subtly angled upward, with the face turned toward the camera while the eyes gaze **slightly upward and off toward the upper-left/center rather than directly into the lens**. Preserve the reference's calm, dreamy, introspective and subtly sensual expression. The eyes are naturally open and relaxed, eyebrows softly positioned, lips gently parted. One hand rises vertically in front of the lower face, with the index finger resting delicately against/near the lower lip and the remaining fingers naturally curved downward near the chin and cheek. Keep the hand elegant and anatomically realistic, with relaxed fingers and natural joints. The other arm remains lower and mostly outside the main focus of the composition.
Dress the user in a simple **ivory/cream sleeveless camisole-style top with thin shoulder straps**, a soft natural fabric texture and understated elegant appearance. Keep the clothing fitted naturally to the body without exaggerating proportions. Preserve the user's natural body anatomy and identity while matching the reference's visible body framing.
Surround the subject with multiple layers of **semi-transparent ivory-white lace curtains**. The curtains occupy the extreme left and right foreground edges and partially frame the face and torso, with intricate floral, botanical and swirling paisley-like lace embroidery. Some lace hangs vertically very close to the camera, creating soft foreground blur, while another sheer lace layer is positioned directly in front of and beside the subject. The curtains must remain delicate, translucent and fabric-like, not solid or opaque.
A vivid **soft sky-blue background** is visible through the lace behind the subject, creating strong contrast against the warm skin and cream fabric. Keep the background simple and uncluttered, with no buildings, furniture, text, logos, or additional objects. The lace curtains cast their intricate embroidered patterns as **sharp, decorative shadows across the user's forehead, eyes, cheeks, nose, lips, neck, upper chest and clothing**. These patterned shadows are a defining feature of the image and must be reproduced accurately, following the curves of the face and body with realistic light direction and natural distortion.
Use warm, directional **late-afternoon/golden-hour sunlight** entering through the lace from the side/front, producing luminous warm skin tones, soft highlights on the hair and shoulders, and strongly defined lace-shadow patterns. Maintain realistic skin texture, subtle freckles/pores if present on the user's identity, natural facial detail, gentle specular highlights and soft cinematic contrast. Hair should appear naturally dimensional with individual strands and warm sunlit edges, while preserving the user's own hairstyle characteristics as much as possible.
Create shallow depth of field: the user's face, eyes and nearest portions of the hand are the primary focus; foreground lace at the extreme edges is softly blurred, while the blue background and farther lace patterns fall into gentle cinematic softness. Preserve realistic optical depth, natural bokeh, subtle lens falloff and authentic photographic detail.
The overall aesthetic should be **high-end editorial fashion photography mixed with dreamy summer sunlight**, intimate, elegant, feminine/masculine presentation determined entirely by the user's identity, natural and sophisticated rather than exaggerated. Use photorealistic rendering, realistic anatomy, physically accurate fabric transparency, authentic lace texture, detailed skin, cinematic tonal range, natural color grading, subtle film character and extremely fine photographic detail.
**Critical priority:** user's uploaded photo controls identity only; the reference controls expression, emotion, gaze direction, head rotation, head tilt, hand placement, body posture, clothing concept, framing, environment, lace arrangement, lighting, shadows, color palette, depth of field and photographic style. Do not inherit the user's original expression, gaze, head pose or body pose. Do not introduce a different person, facial identity, smile, hairstyle unrelated to the user, artificial beauty enhancement, distorted hands, extra fingers, warped facial features, plastic skin, excessive makeup, text, watermark, logo or distracting background elements. The final image must look like an authentic photograph of the **same person from the uploaded user photo**, naturally recreated in the exact scene and visual language of the reference image.Copy the complete prompt and use your own reference photos where requested.
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