Gemini
📰🤎 Vintage Newspaper Dark Academia Portrait Prompt
Written for Gemini. Results and reference-photo support may differ across models.
The complete prompt
aspect ratio 9:16 , Keep the person exactly as shown in the reference image with 100% identical facial features, bone structure, 4K details, has perfect facial details as reference image,
{
"category": "portrait_creator",
"category_reasoning": "A single person styled portrait with a distinct aesthetic, typical of social media creator content or casual editorial photography.",
"adaptable": "subject",
"subject": "young man has perfect facial details as reference image, looking directly to the camera",
"subject_details": "late teens to early twenties, has perfect facial details as reference image, sharp jawline, prominent collarbone, relaxed moody expression, wearing a solid black button-down shirt with the top buttons unfastened",
"setting": "indoor staged setting against a patterned wall",
"setting_details": "backdrop entirely covered in vintage-style newspaper pages featuring articles, crosswords, large bold text, and a tiger illustration, corners heavily darkened by vignette",
"composition": "medium shot from the waist up, subject centered, flat depth, slight low-angle perspective emphasizing the jawline and downward gaze, negative space consumed by heavy shadows on the edges",
"camera": "normal portrait lens compression, waist-level perspective tilted slightly up, deep depth of field keeping the newspaper background texture relatively legible",
"lighting": "low-key dramatic lighting, soft directional key light from the upper front-left, dense shadows on the right side of the subject's face and body, extreme light falloff at the edges, no fill light, no rim light",
"color_grade": "monochromatic warm sepia, heavily desaturated, crushed blacks, muted earthy tones",
"color_palette": "sepia, true black, muted beige, warm grey",
"style": "dark academia, vintage grunge, moody editorial portrait, lo-fi aesthetic",
"mood": "brooding, mysterious, nostalgic, melancholic",
"textures_materials": "matte skin, flat light-absorbing cotton of the black shirt, coarse paper texture of the newsprint background",
"post_processing": "heavy artificial vignette, monochrome sepia color wash, crushed shadows, digital noise, lifted black point in mid-shadows before clipping to black",
"recreation_prompt": "young man has perfect facial details as reference image,, looking directly to the camera, late teens, wearing a black unbuttoned shirt, medium shot from the waist up, centered, indoor setting with a backdrop entirely covered in vintage-style newspaper pages, low-key dramatic lighting, soft directional key light from the upper front-left, dense shadows, monochromatic warm sepia color grade, desaturated, crushed blacks, moody editorial portrait style, dark academia aesthetic, heavy artificial vignette, digital noise, matte skin, 50mm lens, sharp detail.",
"adaptation_prompt": "[YOUR SUBJECT — describe yourself: appearance, outfit, pose], medium shot from the waist up, centered, indoor setting with a backdrop entirely covered in vintage-style newspaper pages, low-key dramatic lighting, soft directional key light from the upper front-left, dense shadows, monochromatic warm sepia color grade, desaturated, crushed blacks, moody editorial portrait style, dark academia aesthetic, heavy artificial vignette, digital noise, matte skin, 50mm lens, sharp detail.",
"negative_prompt": "bright colors, daylight, shallow depth of field, blurred background, messy text, smiling, modern background, high key lighting, glossy skin, vibrant hues",
"color_science": "Warm sepia dominance, low saturation, monochrome bias, deep blacks, muted warm highlights, heavily subdued midtones.",
"filter_name": "Vintage Sepia Vignette",
"filter_description": "Monochrome-leaning sepia tone, heavy edge vignette mimicking old lenses, elevated digital noise, crushed shadow contrast.",
"white_balance": "Warm",
"color_temperature": "Warm/Tungsten leaning",
"tone_curve": "S-curve with crushed shadow floor and compressed highlights",
"dynamic_range": "Low dynamic range, heavily shadow-biased",
"highlight_rendering": "Muted, warm-tinted, low specularity",
"shadow_rendering": "Dense, true black, rapid falloff, loss of detail in the darkest areas",
"camera_rendering": "Digital sensor mimicking vintage film with added digital vignette",
"lens_rendering": "Standard 50mm equivalent, flat field, severe optical vignetting simulated",
"noise_profile": "Moderate digital noise and simulated film grain apparent in shadow transitions",
"grain_profile": "Fine uniform grain across midtones and shadows",
"sharpness_profile": "Moderately sharp subject, slightly softer background edge detail due to lighting falloff and texture blending",
"retouching_analysis": "Basic skin smoothing, heavy global color grading, artificial vignetting",
"portrait_analysis": "Subject centered, chin elevated",
"facial_expression": "Neutral, relaxed, brooding",
"micro_expression": "Relaxed orbicularis oculi, resting lip line, slight tension in the jawline",
"skin_rendering": "Matte, desaturated, preserving basic texture without high gloss or intense specular highlights",
"hair_rendering": "Thick, low-light absorption, minimal rim light, merging into background shadows on the right side",
"lighting_analysis": "Single soft key light from upper left, zero fill, zero rim light, high lighting ratio, rapid falloff toward the edges",
"visual_style_analysis": "Social media creator portrait, dark academia, vintage grunge aesthetic"
}Copy the complete prompt and use your own reference photos where requested.

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