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Mountain Valley Portrait

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Use the uploaded user photo as the **ONLY source of the subject’s identity**. Preserve the person’s exact recognizable facial identity, facial structure, proportions, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, natural eye shape, nose, lips, jawline, cheeks, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, and distinctive facial characteristics. Do not copy the identity or facial appearance of the reference subject. Do not beautify, reshape, slim, age, de-age, feminize, masculinize, or otherwise reinterpret the user’s face. The final person must remain unmistakably the person from the uploaded photo. **USER PHOTO = WHO THE PERSON IS; REFERENCE = HOW THE PERSON LOOKS, POSES, EXPRESSES, AND IS STYLED.**
Recreate the reference image as accurately as possible: a photorealistic vertical outdoor portrait of the subject seated on a rustic stone terrace overlooking a vast mountain valley and lake at golden hour. The subject occupies the lower-left/center portion of the composition, photographed from approximately eye level with a slightly elevated natural perspective, using a medium-full portrait framing that includes the upper body, crossed arms, seated legs, flowing outfit, terrace, railing, lake, mountains, and sky. Maintain the same overall vertical composition and visual balance, approximately 2:3 aspect ratio.
The subject is seated comfortably on a stone surface with the torso angled slightly toward the camera. One forearm rests horizontally across the lap while the opposite arm is bent upward, with the hand gently supporting the side of the face/cheek near the jaw. Reproduce the exact relaxed arm, hand, shoulder, torso, and leg positioning visible in the reference. The posture should feel natural, elegant, relaxed, and candid rather than posed stiffly. Preserve the approximate body orientation, limb placement, seated position, and proportions from the reference.
Reproduce the reference facial behavior precisely using the user’s identity: a soft, calm, subtly content expression with a gentle closed-mouth smile. The eyes are directed slightly toward the right side of the frame rather than directly into the camera, creating a thoughtful, serene gaze toward the distant landscape. Keep the eyelids naturally open, eyebrows relaxed, lips softly curved, and facial muscles subtle and natural. Match the reference head position: head slightly turned toward the right with a gentle natural tilt while the hand supports the cheek/jaw. **Do not use the facial expression, gaze direction, or head pose from the user’s source photo.**
Dress the user in the same overall clothing style as the reference: an elegant traditional South Asian outfit consisting of a soft ivory/off-white embroidered shalwar kameez with delicate pastel pink floral embroidery and fine white lace detailing. The fabric should appear lightweight, semi-sheer, airy, and richly textured. Include a matching flowing dupatta draped naturally over the shoulders and across the arms/lap, decorated with delicate pink floral motifs and intricate white lace borders. Preserve the graceful folds, layered fabric, embroidery placement, translucency, and flowing drape visible in the reference. Add ornate traditional silver-toned jhumka earrings with multiple dangling pearl-like elements. Accessories should complement the outfit without overpowering the face.
Recreate the outdoor environment precisely: a scenic elevated mountain viewpoint with a rustic stone terrace in the foreground, weathered dark wooden railing running horizontally behind the subject, lush green vegetation around the terrace, and a classic black vintage-style outdoor lantern positioned on the left side of the frame. The background opens into a broad panoramic landscape with a blue-green lake winding through a mountainous valley. Layer multiple distant mountain ridges, with the farthest peaks appearing soft blue due to atmospheric haze. Include scattered hillside buildings subtly visible in the valley and lower-right background, without making them dominant.
At the upper-left edge, include natural leafy tree branches extending partially into the frame, with green leaves catching warm sunlight. Keep the lantern and foliage softly integrated into the composition. The terrace should show realistic irregular stone textures, muted gray-brown surfaces, natural wear, and subtle shadows.
Lighting must match the reference: warm late-afternoon/golden-hour sunlight coming from the upper-right/right side of the scene, creating a soft luminous glow across the subject’s face, hair, clothing, vegetation, and distant landscape. The sky should transition from warm cream, pale peach, and soft golden tones near the horizon into very light blue-gray tones, with thin soft clouds. Maintain gentle highlights on the hair and fabric while preserving natural skin tones and realistic shadow detail. Avoid harsh artificial studio lighting.
Use realistic photographic depth of field: the subject should be sharply detailed, especially the face, hair, embroidery, earrings, and foreground clothing, while the distant lake and mountain ranges gradually become softer and more atmospheric. Preserve realistic atmospheric perspective with increasingly hazy blue tones in the far mountains. The image should feel like a high-end travel/editorial portrait photographed with a professional full-frame camera, approximately 50–70mm portrait lens perspective, natural perspective compression, realistic optical depth, fine skin detail, subtle cinematic tonal range, and high dynamic range.
Maintain photorealistic anatomy, realistic hands and fingers, natural hair strands, authentic fabric texture, physically accurate lighting, subtle environmental shadows, and believable depth. Keep the composition elegant, peaceful, warm, scenic, and candid. Do not add text, logos, watermark, artificial graphics, extra people, duplicate limbs, distorted hands, excessive skin smoothing, exaggerated makeup, unnatural facial features, fantasy elements, or changes to the reference composition.
**FINAL PRIORITY:** 1) Uploaded user photo controls identity only. 2) Reference controls expression, emotion, gaze, head position, and facial behavior. 3) Reference controls body pose, hand/arm/leg placement and composition. 4) Reference controls clothing, accessories, environment and objects. 5) Reference controls lighting, camera perspective, depth of field, colors and photographic style. Preserve the user’s identity exactly while recreating the reference scene and visual behavior as faithfully as possible.

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