Cinematic Backlit Studio Portrait

ULTRA-REALISTIC 8K UHD SAME-TO-SAME PHOTOGRAPHIC RECREATION — use the uploaded SCENE REFERENCE IMAGE as the absolute visual blueprint. Reproduce the image with maximum possible fidelity and zero creative reinterpretation. Preserve the exact composition, framing, crop, camera perspective, subject placement, pose, proportions, wardrobe, accessories, hairstyle, facial identity, lighting design, background, tonal relationships, textures, and photographic characteristics of the reference.

SUBJECT & IDENTITY — ABSOLUTE PRIORITY:
A young adult male standing centrally in a relaxed studio portrait. If a separate [MY FACE] image is supplied, replace ONLY the original face with [MY FACE] while keeping the head position, viewing direction, hair placement, facial scale, neck position, body, clothing, lighting, and every other scene element unchanged. Preserve [MY FACE] with exact identity fidelity: facial proportions, face shape, forehead, temples, eyebrows, eye shape and spacing, nose structure, cheekbones, lips, chin, jawline, ears, hairline, beard and moustache pattern, natural asymmetry, skin tone, pores, fine facial texture, and distinctive facial characteristics. No beautification, no facial redesign, no age alteration, no symmetry correction, no skin smoothing, no face morphing, no synthetic facial reconstruction.

The subject has thick, naturally tousled dark hair with visible individual strands and slightly voluminous texture, swept loosely toward the sides/front. He has a short, naturally textured dark beard and moustache with realistic density and subtle variation. He wears dark aviator-style sunglasses with thin metallic frames and dark reflective lenses. His head is turned toward the left side of the image, producing a strong side-facing three-quarter/profile orientation while the torso remains almost directly forward. Expression is calm, neutral, relaxed and candid.

POSE & BODY POSITION:
Subject stands upright with shoulders relaxed and both arms lowered naturally. Both hands are inserted into the front pockets of the sweatshirt. Elbows angle slightly outward. The upper torso faces almost directly toward camera while the head turns left. Neck and shoulders remain anatomically natural. Preserve the exact body proportions, stance, hand placement, elbow angles, shoulder height, head tilt, and posture from the reference.

WARDROBE:
Loose-fitting plain light beige/off-white crew-neck sweatshirt with long sleeves pushed/ruched upward around the forearms, producing multiple natural horizontal fabric folds and compression wrinkles. Soft heavyweight cotton/fleece appearance, matte fabric surface, subtle weave and realistic textile texture. Ribbed crew neckline and ribbed sleeve cuffs. No visible logos, graphics, text, patterns, or branding. Preserve every fold, crease, shadow, seam, cuff position, and fabric tension exactly.

ACCESSORIES:
Dark aviator sunglasses with thin metal arms and realistic dark lenses, including subtle environmental reflections. A dark wristwatch with a metallic/dark bracelet is visible on the wrist on the right side of the image. A thin dark bracelet/wristband is visible on the opposite wrist. Preserve their exact positions, proportions, reflections, and appearance.

COMPOSITION & FRAMING:
Vertical portrait composition, approximately 3:4 aspect ratio / 1152×1536 reference framing. Subject occupies most of the central frame from head to below the waist, with the lower body cropped naturally by the frame. Head positioned around the upper-middle region. Symmetrical frontal body placement with the turned head creating visual asymmetry. Keep the exact negative space and subject-to-frame relationship. Do not zoom, rotate, widen, narrow, or recompose.

CAMERA & OPTICS:
Professional full-frame DSLR/mirrorless photographic capture, approximately 50–70mm portrait focal length, natural perspective with minimal distortion, camera positioned around upper-torso/chest-to-eye level. Moderate depth of field: subject remains extremely sharp while the background falls into controlled softness. Natural optical rendering, realistic perspective compression, physically accurate skin and fabric detail, subtle lens bloom around intense highlights, gentle highlight roll-off, clean high-dynamic-range capture, no artificial computational photography appearance.

LIGHTING:
Dramatic high-contrast studio lighting. A large, intensely bright rectangular soft light/source or illuminated white panel is directly behind the subject, creating a powerful white rectangular background area. Strong backlight produces a clean luminous rim light around the hair, shoulders, outer arms and sweatshirt silhouette. Additional soft frontal/side fill provides enough illumination to retain facial, beard, sunglasses, skin and sweatshirt detail without eliminating the dramatic contrast. Light direction and intensity must remain consistent with the reference.

The bright rear source creates a subtle glowing halo around the subject's silhouette. The subject's front remains comparatively darker and warm-neutral, with controlled shadows beneath the chin, around the neck, beard, sweatshirt folds, arms and pockets. Preserve the distinctive bright edge separation around the sleeves and shoulders.

BACKGROUND & ENVIRONMENT:
Minimalist dark studio environment. Almost completely black surrounding background with a large vertical rectangular white illuminated panel centered behind the subject. The panel has softly glowing edges and slight light falloff into the surrounding darkness. No furniture, props, scenery, architectural details, logos, text, or additional objects. Preserve the exact rectangular geometry and placement of the illuminated panel.

COLOR & TONAL CHARACTER:
Neutral-to-warm cinematic color palette. Bright pure/near-pure white background contrasted against deep blacks. Sweatshirt rendered as warm muted ivory/beige-gray. Skin retains natural warm-brown tonal variation without artificial whitening. Hair and beard remain deep natural black/brown. Strong tonal separation, rich blacks, controlled highlights, realistic midtones, subtle cinematic contrast, natural highlight roll-off and restrained HDR dynamic range.

TEXTURE & REALISM:
Extremely detailed realistic skin texture with visible natural pores and fine beard hairs; individually resolved hair strands; physically believable sweatshirt fibers, folds and wrinkles; realistic metal/glass behavior on sunglasses and watch; accurate contact shadows and fabric compression around pockets and elbows. Preserve natural imperfections and asymmetry. No plastic skin, excessive sharpening, artificial beauty retouching, or CGI appearance.

PHOTOGRAPHIC FINISH:
Authentic high-end professional portrait photograph, DSLR/mirrorless optical character, ultra-clean 8K detail, high micro-contrast without oversharpening, realistic HDR, subtle natural film grain, physically accurate shadows, realistic reflections, natural edge transitions, gentle optical bloom around the strongest backlight, controlled exposure, realistic lens response, accurate skin luminosity, detailed dark areas, smooth tonal gradients, and cinematic professional color grading. The final image must appear to be an actual photograph captured in a controlled professional studio, not AI-generated, not digitally illustrated, and not stylized.

STRICT RECREATION RULE:
Do not add, remove, redesign, beautify, stylize, reinterpret, or creatively modify anything visible in the reference. Maintain the same subject scale, head direction, pose, clothing, accessories, illuminated rectangle, black surroundings, lighting geometry, rim light, shadows, color relationships, perspective, crop, and photographic atmosphere. SAME SCENE + SAME COMPOSITION + SAME POSE + SAME VISUAL STRUCTURE + ONLY [MY FACE] REPLACEMENT WHEN PROVIDED.

NEGATIVE PROMPT:
cartoon, anime, illustration, CGI, 3D render, digital painting, artificial face, generated face, face swap artifacts, identity drift, facial morphing, altered facial anatomy, beautified face, symmetrical face, changed age, changed ethnicity, plastic skin, skin smoothing, excessive retouching, beauty filter, unrealistic eyes, distorted eyes, altered nose, altered lips, altered jawline, altered cheekbones, altered hairline, fake beard, incorrect hairstyle, duplicate person, extra person, extra limbs, malformed hands, missing fingers, extra fingers, distorted arms, warped body, incorrect pose, altered clothing, logos, text, watermark, added objects, removed objects, different background, different lighting, flat lighting, harsh artificial shadows, oversaturated colors, crushed blacks, blown facial highlights, excessive HDR, oversharpening, excessive bokeh, heavy chromatic aberration, fisheye distortion, motion blur, low resolution, noise artifacts, JPEG artifacts, unrealistic reflections, uncanny skin, AI look.

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