City in My Shades – Monochrome Portrait

IMPORTANT: Use the uploaded photograph ONLY to preserve the person’s exact face and recognizable identity. Completely replace the uploaded image’s original hairstyle, beard style, eyewear, clothes, pose, body position, lighting, colours and background. Do not retain anything from the uploaded photograph except the person’s natural facial identity.

Create an ultra-realistic, high-contrast black-and-white cinematic close-up portrait of the exact same person from the uploaded photograph. Preserve his natural age, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, nose, lips, cheekbones, ears, jawline, chin and recognizable facial proportions with maximum accuracy. The final result must clearly look like the uploaded person—not another model or a similar face.

EXACT POSE AND FACE ANGLE: Show the person in a tight head-and-shoulders close-up. Turn his face approximately 25–30 degrees toward the left side of the image while keeping most of the face visible. Raise his chin slightly and direct his gaze upward toward the upper-left, creating a confident, calm and thoughtful expression. Keep his lips gently closed and relaxed. The jawline and neck must look strong and naturally defined.

HAIRSTYLE — VERY IMPORTANT: Give him thick, dark-black, medium-length hair with a large, voluminous textured quiff. The front and upper hair should be lifted upward and swept backward with naturally separated strands. Keep the top broad, dense and slightly messy, with soft waves rather than tight curls. Make the side visible near the ear significantly shorter with a smooth low-to-mid taper fade, gradually blending into the longer top. The hair must look dry, soft, naturally styled and highly detailed.

Do not create long neck-length hair, wet curls, a bowl cut, flat hair, centre-parted hair, an undercut with a harsh disconnected line or completely shaved sides.

FACIAL HAIR: Add realistic short designer stubble across the cheeks, jawline, chin and upper neck. Add a short connected moustache and slightly denser stubble around the chin and lower lip. Individual beard hairs must remain visible. Do not create a thick, long or fully grown beard. Keep the stubble natural and slightly rugged while preserving the uploaded person’s original jaw shape.

SUNGLASSES — CRITICAL DETAIL: Add premium black rounded sunglasses with slightly angular circular lenses, a dark glossy frame, a subtle keyhole-style bridge and thin black side arms. Include one tiny silver rivet near the upper outer edge of each lens. The glasses must sit naturally and symmetrically on the face with realistic contact around the nose and ears.

Both dark sunglass lenses must contain a clear, realistic monochrome reflection of a modern waterfront city skyline. Show several tall skyscrapers of different heights, including one very tall narrow central tower, smaller towers on both sides and a thin horizontal waterfront line beneath them. The skyline reflection must follow the curved perspective of each lens and appear naturally mirrored across both lenses. Keep the reflection sharp enough to recognize the buildings but realistically blended into the dark glass.

CLOTHING: Show only the upper portion of a plain solid-black crew-neck T-shirt. The neckline should fit closely around the lower neck. No jacket, shirt collar, pattern, jewellery, chain, watch, logo or text should be visible.

BACKGROUND: Use a completely seamless, solid pitch-black studio background. No visible wall texture, gradient, scenery, lights, city, smoke or objects should appear outside the sunglass reflections. The head and shoulders must emerge dramatically from the black background.

LIGHTING — VERY IMPORTANT: Use dramatic low-key studio lighting with one focused soft light coming from the upper-left/front-left side. Illuminate the forehead, nose bridge, upper cheek, lips and front edge of the jaw while allowing the opposite side of the face and neck to fall gradually into deep shadow. Add subtle highlights along individual hair strands and the rim of the sunglasses.

Keep strong cinematic contrast with deep blacks, bright but controlled highlights and rich middle-grey skin tones. Preserve realistic pores, fine lines, beard stubble and natural skin texture. Do not make the skin overly smooth, glowing or artificial.

COMPOSITION AND FRAMING: Vertical 9:16 portrait. Use an extreme close-up head-and-shoulders composition. Place the face slightly toward the right side of the frame, leaving black negative space above the hair and along the left edge. Keep the entire hair shape, ear, jawline, neck and upper shoulders visible. The bottom edge should crop naturally across the upper chest. Use an approximately 85mm portrait lens perspective with sharp focus on the face, sunglasses, stubble and hair.

COLOUR AND FINISH: Pure monochrome black-and-white photography with neutral greys. No colour, blue tint, brown sepia tint or warm skin colour. Apply a premium fine-art editorial finish, deep tonal range, crisp micro-contrast, subtle film grain and extremely detailed natural textures. The result must look like a genuine professional studio photograph—not AI artwork.

STRICT IDENTITY LOCK: The uploaded photograph is the only source for the person’s identity. Preserve his exact recognizable facial structure and do not replace it with the reference model’s face, a celebrity or a generic handsome man. Do not alter his ethnicity, age, facial proportions, nose, lips, jawline or natural skin characteristics. Change only the hairstyle, stubble, glasses, pose, clothing, lighting and background described in this prompt.

NEGATIVE PROMPT: different person, changed identity, generic model, celebrity face, altered ethnicity, changed skin tone, distorted face, plastic skin, excessive beauty filter, full beard, long beard, clean-shaven face, long hair, neck-length hair, tight curls, wet hair, flat hairstyle, centre part, completely shaved head, coloured image, sepia tone, bright background, grey background, outdoor scene, visible city outside glasses, landscape, car, waterfront background, jacket, white shirt, jewellery, necklace, smiling with teeth, open mouth, front-facing passport pose, full-body image, waist-up framing, tiny face, incorrect glasses, transparent lenses, missing skyline reflection, blurry reflection, duplicated buildings outside lenses, deformed ears, warped sunglasses, asymmetrical frames, extra facial features, excessive shadows hiding the entire face, cropped hair, cropped jaw, illustration, painting, cartoon, CGI, text, logo or watermark.IMPORTANT: Use the uploaded photograph ONLY to preserve the person’s exact face and recognizable identity. Completely replace the uploaded image’s original hairstyle, beard style, eyewear, clothes, pose, body position, lighting, colours and background. Do not retain anything from the uploaded photograph except the person’s natural facial identity.

Create an ultra-realistic, high-contrast black-and-white cinematic close-up portrait of the exact same person from the uploaded photograph. Preserve his natural age, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, nose, lips, cheekbones, ears, jawline, chin and recognizable facial proportions with maximum accuracy. The final result must clearly look like the uploaded person—not another model or a similar face.

EXACT POSE AND FACE ANGLE: Show the person in a tight head-and-shoulders close-up. Turn his face approximately 25–30 degrees toward the left side of the image while keeping most of the face visible. Raise his chin slightly and direct his gaze upward toward the upper-left, creating a confident, calm and thoughtful expression. Keep his lips gently closed and relaxed. The jawline and neck must look strong and naturally defined.

HAIRSTYLE — VERY IMPORTANT: Give him thick, dark-black, medium-length hair with a large, voluminous textured quiff. The front and upper hair should be lifted upward and swept backward with naturally separated strands. Keep the top broad, dense and slightly messy, with soft waves rather than tight curls. Make the side visible near the ear significantly shorter with a smooth low-to-mid taper fade, gradually blending into the longer top. The hair must look dry, soft, naturally styled and highly detailed.

Do not create long neck-length hair, wet curls, a bowl cut, flat hair, centre-parted hair, an undercut with a harsh disconnected line or completely shaved sides.

FACIAL HAIR: Add realistic short designer stubble across the cheeks, jawline, chin and upper neck. Add a short connected moustache and slightly denser stubble around the chin and lower lip. Individual beard hairs must remain visible. Do not create a thick, long or fully grown beard. Keep the stubble natural and slightly rugged while preserving the uploaded person’s original jaw shape.

SUNGLASSES — CRITICAL DETAIL: Add premium black rounded sunglasses with slightly angular circular lenses, a dark glossy frame, a subtle keyhole-style bridge and thin black side arms. Include one tiny silver rivet near the upper outer edge of each lens. The glasses must sit naturally and symmetrically on the face with realistic contact around the nose and ears.

Both dark sunglass lenses must contain a clear, realistic monochrome reflection of a modern waterfront city skyline. Show several tall skyscrapers of different heights, including one very tall narrow central tower, smaller towers on both sides and a thin horizontal waterfront line beneath them. The skyline reflection must follow the curved perspective of each lens and appear naturally mirrored across both lenses. Keep the reflection sharp enough to recognize the buildings but realistically blended into the dark glass.

CLOTHING: Show only the upper portion of a plain solid-black crew-neck T-shirt. The neckline should fit closely around the lower neck. No jacket, shirt collar, pattern, jewellery, chain, watch, logo or text should be visible.

BACKGROUND: Use a completely seamless, solid pitch-black studio background. No visible wall texture, gradien

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