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Warm Sunset Family Portrait with Hanging Lights
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USER PHOTO = THE ONLY SOURCE OF THE PRIMARY SUBJECT’S IDENTITY. Preserve that person’s exact recognizable facial identity and natural appearance from the uploaded photo, including facial structure, proportions, face shape, forehead, hairline, eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, mouth structure, jawline, cheeks, cheekbones, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, and distinctive facial characteristics. Do not copy the identity of any person in the reference image. Do not beautify, redesign, reshape, slim, masculinize, feminize, age, de-age, or otherwise reinterpret the user's identity. The final primary subject must remain unmistakably the person from the uploaded photo. If the user's gender presentation differs from the reference subject, preserve the user's gender and identity exactly. The user's original photo supplies identity only—not its expression, gaze, head angle, pose, clothing, or environment.
Recreate the reference as a highly realistic, warm cinematic family portrait at sunset on an elegant outdoor terrace or garden patio. Preserve the overall three-person family composition: an adult woman holding a small toddler near the center-left and an adult man standing on the right, with the adults forming an affectionate raised-arm arch above the child's head. Apply the user's uploaded identity to whichever primary adult subject is being replaced, while keeping the other family members naturally realistic and visually consistent with the reference without borrowing their identities.
POSE & BODY POSITION: The woman stands slightly left of center, holding the toddler securely at hip/waist level with one arm while raising her opposite arm high above her head. Her raised forearm curves upward toward the man's raised hand, creating an arch. Her torso is turned slightly toward the child and man. The toddler is held in front of her body, facing toward the right side of the frame, with both legs hanging naturally and one arm slightly lifted. The man stands on the right side, body mostly facing toward the camera with a subtle inward turn toward the woman and child. His right arm is raised overhead, elbow bent, with his hand meeting/holding the woman's raised hand at the top center of the composition. His other arm hangs naturally beside his body. Keep realistic anatomy, natural hands, correct finger structure, believable weight distribution, and natural contact between all three subjects.
EXPRESSION & EMOTION: Reconstruct the reference expressions rather than the user's source-photo expression. The woman has a joyful, affectionate expression, smiling warmly while looking toward the man/child area. Her eyes are directed toward the right, slightly upward toward the man, with a lively happy expression. The man has a gentle affectionate smile and looks downward and toward the woman/child with a loving family-oriented expression. The toddler has a bright, spontaneous open-mouth smile/laugh, looking toward the man with delighted eyes. Preserve this exact emotional interaction and do not substitute a neutral or generic expression.
HEAD POSE & GAZE: Match the reference head rotations and eye directions precisely. The woman’s head is turned toward the right with a slight upward orientation; her eyes follow the man/child interaction rather than looking directly at the camera. The man’s head is angled downward and slightly left toward the woman and child; his gaze is directed at them. The toddler’s head faces slightly right and upward toward the man, with eyes focused on him. Do not allow the user's source-photo gaze, expression, or head angle to override these reference characteristics.
CLOTHING: Reproduce the elegant coordinated sage-green family styling. The adult woman wears a flowing sage/soft olive-green traditional South Asian outfit resembling a long embroidered lehenga or flowing gown with a fitted blouse and a sheer, draped dupatta. The fabric is decorated with delicate intricate white/silver floral embroidery distributed across the blouse, skirt, and dupatta, with a graceful translucent layered texture and flowing folds extending toward the lower-left foreground. The toddler wears a matching sage-green embroidered dress with a full skirt, delicate pale floral detailing, short sleeves, and a small decorative green floral hair clip. The child wears white socks with subtle pink accents and dark green-and-white casual sneakers. The adult man wears a dark forest-green long-sleeve button-up shirt with the sleeves naturally rolled or slightly pushed at the forearms, tucked into tailored light beige/cream trousers. Include his dark wristwatch on the left wrist. Preserve realistic fabric texture, stitching, embroidery, folds, and natural clothing physics.
ENVIRONMENT: Create an elegant outdoor veranda/patio surrounded by lush greenery and climbing vines. Tall dark wooden posts frame the scene on the left and behind the family, with abundant green leaves and hanging plants. Small white daisy-like flowers grow along the lower-left foreground and around the patio. Include comfortable outdoor wooden seating with light beige cushions in the background on the left. Place warm decorative lanterns with glowing candles on the floor near the lower-left and lower-right areas. Several exposed hanging Edison-style bulbs descend from above on dark cords, glowing warmly throughout the upper portion of the frame. Maintain the intimate garden-party atmosphere.
BACKGROUND: Behind the family, show a beautiful sunset sky with soft peach, pink, cream, and lavender tones fading toward the horizon, with distant bluish-purple mountains softly silhouetted in the background. Keep the sunset visible through the open veranda structure. Use layered atmospheric depth so the distant landscape is softer than the subjects.
COMPOSITION & FRAMING: Vertical 4:5 portrait composition. Camera positioned approximately at adult chest/eye level, slightly below the top of the raised hands, using a natural perspective similar to a 50mm portrait lens. Frame the family from approximately head to below the woman's flowing skirt and the man's upper legs, while allowing the full raised-arm gesture and hanging bulbs to remain visible. The woman occupies the center-left, toddler centered between the adults, and man on the right. Keep the raised hands near the upper central area. Do not crop the important hands, child's feet, faces, or major clothing details. The left edge contains a strong vertical wooden post covered with vines and flowers, creating a natural frame.
CAMERA & OPTICS: Photorealistic professional family photography, approximately 50mm full-frame perspective, moderate depth of field, sharp facial and clothing detail, natural perspective without wide-angle distortion. Keep the family crisp while allowing the distant mountains, foliage, furniture, and sunset background to fall into a soft cinematic blur. Use realistic depth separation without excessive artificial bokeh.
LIGHTING: Golden-hour sunset lighting combined with warm amber illumination from the hanging Edison bulbs and candle lanterns. Soft warm rim light outlines the hair and shoulders, subtle sunset highlights illuminate the faces and embroidered fabrics, while gentle shadows preserve dimensional facial structure. The bulbs should visibly glow with realistic warm filaments and soft halos. Maintain balanced exposure between the warm foreground lights and pastel sunset background.
STYLE & QUALITY: Ultra-realistic high-end cinematic family photography, premium lifestyle editorial aesthetic, natural skin texture, realistic pores and fine facial detail, physically accurate hands and anatomy, authentic hair strands, detailed embroidery, realistic fabric translucency, subtle atmospheric haze, natural color grading, soft highlight rolloff, rich but believable colors, realistic shadows and reflections, polished professional photography, emotionally warm and intimate atmosphere, highly detailed, crisp subject rendering, no artificial plastic skin.
IDENTITY SAFETY: The uploaded user photo is ONLY an identity reference for the primary subject. Never merge the user's face with any reference face. Never imitate the reference person's facial structure. Preserve the user's exact recognizable identity while transferring only the reference scene, expression, emotion, gaze, head pose, body pose, styling, composition, lighting, and environment. Do not use the user's original facial expression, gaze, head position, or background. Avoid face distortion, identity drift, duplicated facial features, unnatural hands, extra fingers, malformed limbs, mismatched eyes, warped clothing, excessive retouching, or artificial-looking skin. Final image must faithfully reproduce the reference composition while keeping the user's identity unmistakably intact.Copy the complete prompt and use your own reference photos where requested.
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