Intimate Couple Portrait

Use the uploaded user photo as the **ONLY source of the primary subject’s identity**. Preserve that person’s exact recognizable facial identity, facial structure, proportions, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, natural eye shape, nose, lips, jawline, cheeks, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, and distinctive facial characteristics. Do not copy or resemble the identity of either person in the reference image. Do not beautify, reshape, slim, age, de-age, masculinize, feminize, or otherwise reinterpret the user’s face. The user’s identity must remain unmistakably their own. The uploaded photo provides **WHO the person is only**; it must not control the final expression, gaze, head position, pose, or emotion.
Recreate the reference as a highly realistic intimate indoor couple portrait in a vertical **9:16 composition**, preserving the same overall arrangement and visual balance. The primary subject is the seated/reclining person positioned across the lower half of the frame, leaning back comfortably with their head resting upward against the lap/upper-thigh area of the standing/seated partner. Their torso is angled diagonally from the lower-right toward the center-left. One arm extends naturally toward the lower-right foreground, while the other arm and body remain relaxed across the partner’s lap. Their legs extend toward the lower portion of the frame, with dark blue denim visible. Reproduce the relaxed, affectionate body language and exact spatial relationship of the reference.
The primary subject’s head is tilted backward and rotated slightly upward toward the partner, with the face shown in a three-quarter/profile-like view. The chin is raised slightly, neck naturally elongated, and the eyes are directed upward toward the partner rather than toward the camera. Recreate the reference’s soft, affectionate, emotionally connected expression: relaxed eyes, gentle facial muscles, subtle closed/relaxed mouth, calm intimate mood, and no exaggerated smile. The user’s original expression, gaze, and head pose from their uploaded photo must be completely ignored and replaced by the reference expression, upward gaze, and head position while retaining the user’s exact identity.
The partner is positioned behind and above the primary subject, seated or kneeling comfortably, creating a protective embrace-like composition. The partner looks downward toward the primary subject with a warm, tender, slightly shy smile and soft affectionate eyes. One hand rests naturally around the primary subject’s hair/head area, gently touching or supporting the curls, while the other hand rests around the primary subject’s upper torso/waist area. Preserve the natural intertwined positioning of both bodies and hands. If no separate identity reference is provided for the partner, render the partner as a realistic original person without borrowing the identity or distinctive facial features of the reference.
Clothing should closely reproduce the reference: the partner wears a fitted mustard/golden-yellow ribbed long-sleeve knit sweater with visible knitted texture and a simple delicate necklace. The primary subject wears a light neutral/white crew-neck T-shirt underneath an oversized muted olive, beige, brown, and gray plaid/checkered overshirt, with the sleeves naturally rolled or pushed toward the forearms, paired with dark blue jeans. Preserve realistic fabric folds, stitching, texture, thickness, and natural clothing drape. The primary subject has thick, naturally curly dark hair with realistic volume and loose curls around the head; adapt the hairstyle to the user’s identity without altering their recognizable facial features.
Set the scene inside a dim, warm, minimalist interior with dark brown/charcoal walls and a narrow brighter vertical area along the far left edge suggesting a doorway or sunlit wall opening. The background is simple, uncluttered, matte, and softly shadowed. Use warm late-afternoon sunlight entering strongly from the left side, producing golden illumination across the faces, yellow sweater, hair, and upper bodies while leaving much of the lower background in deep soft shadow. Create realistic directional light, gentle falloff, subtle rim highlights in the hair, natural skin highlights, and rich warm-to-dark tonal contrast. Preserve the cinematic chiaroscuro atmosphere without crushing facial details.
Camera should be positioned approximately at seated/waist-to-chest height, slightly in front of the couple, using a natural perspective similar to a **50mm lens**, with mild compression and no exaggerated wide-angle distortion. Frame the image vertically so the couple occupies most of the composition, with the partner’s head near the upper-middle portion and the primary subject extending diagonally across the center and lower-right. Keep the feet/legs partially visible toward the bottom while allowing some negative dark background around the upper-right. Match the reference’s intimate close-to-medium-full framing and perspective rather than centering the subjects conventionally.
Use shallow-to-moderate depth of field: faces, hands, hair, and clothing should remain sharply detailed while the distant dark wall falls gently softer. Photorealistic skin pores and natural texture, realistic individual hair strands and curls, physically accurate fabric texture, subtle film grain, soft cinematic contrast, warm earthy color grading, natural shadows, realistic exposure, high dynamic range, premium editorial lifestyle photography, authentic candid intimacy, sophisticated cinematic photography, no artificial plastic skin.
The final image must feel like a genuine spontaneous photograph of a real couple caught in a quiet affectionate moment, not a posed studio portrait. Preserve the exact emotional intimacy, downward/upward gaze relationship, head angles, body contact, hand placement, diagonal composition, lighting direction, warm atmosphere, clothing arrangement, and framing of the reference while replacing the reference person’s identity with the identity from the uploaded user photo.
**Identity priority:** uploaded user photo = exact identity only. **Reference image = expression, emotion, gaze, head pose, body pose, composition, clothing, environment, lighting, camera perspective, and visual style.** Do not allow the user’s source-photo expression or pose to override the reference. Do not merge facial identities. Do not generate a generic version of the user. The final primary subject must remain clearly recognizable as the person in the uploaded photo while naturally performing the exact role and emotional behavior shown in the reference.

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