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Elegant White Sari Portrait in a Floral Mughal Courtyard
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USER PHOTO = THE ONLY SOURCE OF IDENTITY. Use the uploaded user photo as the exclusive reference for who the person is. Preserve the user's exact recognizable facial identity and natural appearance: facial structure and proportions, face shape, forehead, hairline, eyebrows, eyes and natural eye shape, nose, lips, mouth structure, cheeks, cheekbones, jawline, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, and all distinctive facial characteristics. Do not copy or blend the reference subject's identity, facial features, ethnicity, age, or appearance into the user. Do not beautify, redesign, slim, reshape, masculinize, feminize, age, de-age, or otherwise reinterpret the user's identity. The final person must unmistakably remain the person from the uploaded user photo. The user's source-photo expression, gaze, and head pose must NOT be preserved if they differ from the reference.
REFERENCE IMAGE = THE SOURCE FOR EVERYTHING ABOUT HOW THE USER APPEARS IN THIS SCENE. Recreate the reference composition, pose, expression, gaze, head position, styling, environment, lighting, camera perspective, and photographic character as closely as possible while replacing only the reference person's identity with the user's identity.
SUBJECT & POSE: Create a vertical editorial portrait of the user standing in a historic South Asian/Mughal-inspired architectural courtyard. The subject is shown in a three-quarter rear-facing pose, with the body turned mostly away from the camera while the upper torso and head rotate back over the shoulder toward the camera. The subject stands naturally and elegantly, relaxed rather than posed stiffly. The visible posture should closely reproduce the reference: shoulders angled away, back partially visible, torso elongated, one arm naturally lowered along the body and partly concealed by the draped sari, with the opposite arm/hand positioned naturally near the lower side of the body. Preserve the same body orientation, shoulder rotation, neck position, and overall silhouette. Do not turn the body fully toward the camera.
HEAD, EXPRESSION & GAZE: Match the reference head rotation precisely: the head is turned back over the shoulder toward the camera, with a subtle natural tilt and relaxed neck. Reconstruct the reference's calm, composed, slightly serious expression. The eyes look directly toward the camera/viewer with a soft, steady gaze. Keep the eyelids naturally open, eyebrows relaxed, lips closed in a neutral, understated expression, with no smile and no exaggerated emotion. The user's identity must remain unchanged while the facial expression, gaze direction, eye openness, eyebrow position, mouth position, and head orientation are taken from the reference.
HAIR: Recreate the reference hairstyle as scene styling while retaining the user's identity. Hair is dark, smooth, neatly arranged and pulled back into a long thick braid extending down the back, with a clean center/near-center part and controlled strands around the face. The hairstyle should follow the reference silhouette and braid placement without altering the user's facial identity or natural hairline unnecessarily.
CLOTHING: Dress the user in an elegant white/off-white traditional sari with intricate black printed borders and botanical/ornamental motifs. The sari is lightweight, softly draped and naturally folded, with a broad decorative black-and-white border running along the pallu and lower edge. The pallu falls prominently over the front/side of the body and extends downward, creating layered fabric folds. Underneath, use a fitted black sleeveless/back-open blouse matching the reference, with thin black tie strings visible across the upper back and long dangling ties extending downward. Preserve the reference's modest traditional styling, fabric texture, draping pattern, border placement, and black-and-white contrast. Add ornate traditional dangling silver-toned/jhumka-style earrings matching the reference. Do not introduce modern accessories or unrelated jewelry.
ENVIRONMENT: Place the subject in an old-world South Asian/Mughal architectural courtyard surrounded by weathered warm beige/sandstone-colored carved arches, columns, recessed archways, and textured stone walls. The architecture should feel historic, elegant, intimate, and naturally aged. Behind and around the subject are lush green climbing vines covered with abundant small pink flowers, especially along the right side and upper archways. The courtyard floor is warm pale stone with subtle natural texture. Include deep shadowed architectural openings on the left and softly illuminated courtyard space beyond the subject.
COMPOSITION: Match the reference's tall portrait composition, approximately 2:3 vertical aspect ratio. Frame the subject from roughly mid-thigh/lower-body level upward with enough space to show the sari draping, braid, architectural arches, and surrounding flowers. Place the subject slightly left of center, leaving substantial floral and architectural background space on the right. The subject's face sits around the upper-middle portion of the frame. Do not crop the head, braid, shoulders, or major sari details. Preserve the reference's visual balance between the person, stone arches, and flowering vines.
CAMERA & PERSPECTIVE: Use an eye-level or very slightly elevated portrait camera positioned a few meters behind and to the side of the subject, matching the reference three-quarter rear perspective. Use a natural portrait lens around 70–85mm full-frame equivalent, producing realistic proportions with gentle background compression. Avoid wide-angle distortion. Maintain the same apparent camera distance, subject scale, perspective, and framing as the reference. The subject should feel naturally integrated into the architectural space rather than cut out or artificially enlarged.
LIGHTING: Recreate soft warm natural daylight filtering through the courtyard and foliage. The subject's face and sari should receive gentle, diffused illumination with subtle warm highlights and soft shadows. Bright sunlight should appear through the upper-right foliage and archway, producing glowing circular bokeh and luminous highlights in the background. Preserve realistic exposure: detailed skin, soft white sari without blown-out fabric, naturally shaded architecture, and delicate highlights around the flowers and leaves.
BACKGROUND & DEPTH: Use shallow-to-moderate depth of field. Keep the user's face, eyes, sari details, and nearby braid reasonably sharp while allowing the distant arches, leaves, pink flowers, and sunlit openings to fall into a smooth creamy blur. Create natural optical bokeh from sunlight passing through foliage, especially in the upper-right and behind the subject. Maintain clear separation between subject and background without making the scene look artificially composited.
COLOR & ATMOSPHERE: Warm sandstone beige, ivory-white fabric, deep black blouse and borders, rich natural green foliage, and soft pink flowers. The overall mood is serene, elegant, romantic, timeless, and photographic, with authentic South Asian heritage-courtyard character. Preserve natural skin tones and realistic fabric colors.
IMAGE QUALITY & STYLE: High-end photorealistic fashion/editorial photography, realistic human anatomy, authentic skin texture, fine fabric detail, naturally rendered hair strands and braid, physically plausible lighting, realistic shadows, subtle cinematic color grading, high dynamic range, crisp facial detail, and refined optical depth of field. Avoid plastic skin, excessive beauty retouching, artificial facial symmetry, CGI appearance, painterly rendering, cartoon effects, oversaturation, excessive sharpening, or unnatural HDR.
STRICT PRIORITY: 1) USER PHOTO determines identity and facial appearance only. 2) REFERENCE determines expression, emotion, gaze, head pose, body pose, composition, clothing, styling, environment, camera, lighting, and visual atmosphere. 3) Never let the user's original photo expression, gaze, or pose override the reference. 4) Never let the reference person's identity override the user's identity. The final image must look like the exact user naturally photographed in this same historic floral courtyard, wearing the same sari and posing with the same calm over-the-shoulder expression and direct gaze as the reference.Copy the complete prompt and use your own reference photos where requested.
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