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Golden Hour Rooftop Couple Portrait
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Use the uploaded user photo as the **ONLY source of the primary subject’s identity** and recreate the reference image with that person replacing the corresponding foreground subject while preserving their exact recognizable identity. Preserve facial structure and proportions, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, natural eye shape, nose, lips, jawline, cheeks, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, facial hair if present, and all distinctive facial characteristics. Do not copy the reference person's identity, facial features, age, gender, or appearance onto the user. Do not beautify, redesign, slim, masculinize, feminize, age, de-age, or otherwise alter the user's identity. The uploaded photo provides WHO the person is; the reference image provides HOW they appear, pose, expression, gaze, styling, and environment.
Recreate the reference as a romantic cinematic rooftop photograph at golden hour, matching the original composition closely. The scene shows two people seated together on a traditional rooftop terrace overlooking a dense historic South Asian city. The primary subject sits in the foreground/right portion of the composition, while the companion sits closely beside them on the left/front, creating an intimate couple portrait. Preserve the same relative positioning, physical closeness, scale, framing, and interaction as the reference.
PRIMARY SUBJECT POSE: seated beside the companion on a low traditional rooftop seating platform, torso upright with a relaxed natural posture, body angled slightly toward the companion. One arm is raised toward the companion's hair/ear area in a gentle affectionate gesture, with the hand positioned delicately beside the companion's face. The other arm rests naturally downward/along the body. Legs are bent naturally while seated, with the lower body extending toward the lower-right portion of the frame. Reproduce the exact hand placement, elbow angles, shoulder position, torso orientation, leg positioning, and relaxed posture visible in the reference.
PRIMARY SUBJECT HEAD AND EXPRESSION: reproduce the reference head position and three-quarter orientation, with the head gently tilted/turned toward the companion rather than directly toward the camera. The eyes look warmly toward the companion's face, not toward the camera. Expression is soft, affectionate, relaxed, and subtly smiling, with natural eyes and a gentle closed-to-slightly-open smiling mouth. Match the reference eyebrow position, eye openness, gaze direction, cheek movement, lip position, and emotional warmth. Do not use the facial expression or gaze from the user's source photo.
COMPANION: recreate the second person as a natural secondary subject in the same position and pose shown in the reference, seated closely beside the primary subject. The companion has a warm happy expression and looks upward/toward the primary subject with a genuine affectionate smile. One hand is raised near the side of the face/ear, while the other rests naturally across the lap. Reproduce the companion's body posture, head angle, gaze, hand placement, clothing silhouette, and interaction without transferring the companion's identity to the uploaded user.
CLOTHING: reproduce the reference styling closely. The companion wears a warm rust/orange traditional South Asian outfit consisting of a sleeveless blouse/top with subtle embroidered floral details and a flowing matching draped fabric/dupatta extending across the body and down toward the lower-left foreground. Include delicate bangles and small traditional jewelry details. The primary subject wears a dark teal/blue-green long-sleeve casual button-up shirt with dark trousers, sleeves naturally rolled/positioned around the forearms, and a metallic wristwatch on the wrist. Keep realistic fabric folds, embroidery, texture, and natural clothing fit.
SETTING: traditional elevated rooftop terrace with an aged weathered brick-and-stone parapet and rustic architectural details. Include the old railing/posts and patterned traditional floor covering/seating visible around the couple. Behind them is a sprawling dense historic city filled with tightly packed low-rise buildings, rooftops, domes/minarets and multiple illuminated mosque-like towers. Preserve the distinctive layered cityscape and mountain/hill silhouettes in the far distance.
BACKGROUND AND LIGHTING: sunset directly behind the distant hills near the upper-center/right portion of the frame. The sky is warm amber, peach, and soft orange. Golden-hour sunlight creates a glowing rim light around the subjects and warm highlights across their hair, clothing, skin, rooftop, and distant architecture. City lights are beginning to glow, producing numerous soft circular bokeh points throughout the background. Keep the background substantially out of focus while the couple remains sharp and detailed. Use realistic atmospheric haze over the city and mountains.
CAMERA AND COMPOSITION: vertical portrait orientation, approximately 3:4 aspect ratio. Medium-full/wide environmental portrait, camera positioned slightly above or around eye level with the seated subjects, approximately 2–3 meters away. Use a natural portrait perspective comparable to approximately a 50mm lens, avoiding exaggerated wide-angle distortion. Frame the couple prominently in the lower and middle portions of the image while retaining a large amount of cityscape and sunset above them. Keep the primary subject on the right and companion on the left, with the sunset and distant hills forming the upper background. Preserve the original cropping, spatial balance, perspective, and subject scale as closely as possible.
DEPTH OF FIELD: shallow-to-moderate depth of field. The couple's faces, hair, hands, clothing textures, and immediate seating area should be crisp and photorealistic, while the city behind them gradually becomes heavily soft and creamy with warm circular bokeh. Maintain realistic focus falloff rather than an artificial blur.
PHOTOGRAPHIC STYLE: highly realistic professional lifestyle photography with a cinematic romantic atmosphere, natural skin texture, authentic facial detail, realistic anatomy, subtle filmic contrast, warm sunset color grading, gentle highlights, soft shadows, rich but natural colors, realistic fabric texture, and believable environmental detail. Preserve the slightly nostalgic, intimate travel-photography feeling of the reference. No illustration, no painting, no artificial CGI appearance.
IDENTITY PRIORITY: the uploaded user's identity must remain unmistakably recognizable and must never be replaced by the reference person's face. Transfer only the reference's expression, emotion, gaze, head pose, body pose, clothing/styling, composition, environment, lighting, and photographic characteristics. If the user's source photo has a different expression, gaze, hairstyle arrangement, or head angle, completely reconstruct those elements according to the reference while keeping the user's underlying identity unchanged.
NEGATIVE INSTRUCTIONS: no identity mixing, no face swapping with the reference person, no facial redesign, no beautification, no altered ethnicity, no gender change, no age change, no exaggerated facial features, no copied source-photo expression, no copied source-photo gaze, no distorted hands, no extra fingers, no missing limbs, no malformed anatomy, no duplicated people, no artificial skin, no excessive smoothing, no plastic appearance, no text, no watermark, no logo, no border, no oversaturated colors, no excessive HDR, no cartoon or CGI look.Copy the complete prompt and use your own reference photos where requested.
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