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Explosive Urban Survival Portrait

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Use the uploaded photo as the primary identity reference for the person. Preserve the person's exact facial identity, facial structure, skin tone, facial proportions, eyes, nose, lips, jawline, beard pattern, hairline, and all recognizable facial characteristics. The final subject should clearly resemble the person from the uploaded photo. Do not copy the facial identity of the person shown in the reference image.
Height & Physique
The person is 6'9" (205 cm) tall. Maintain realistic body proportions consistent with this height, including naturally long limbs, proportionate shoulders, torso, arms and legs. Keep the physique strong, natural and realistic without stretching or anatomical distortion.
Hair Reference
Recreate the hairstyle shown in the reference image: thick, naturally messy dark black hair with medium length and strong textured volume. The top should be tousled with separated strands and irregular natural movement, while the sides remain slightly shorter and naturally blended. Include realistic individual strands, subtle flyaways and dusty highlights. Avoid overly slick or artificial styling.
Main Concept
Create an ultra-photorealistic cinematic action-fashion portrait inspired by the reference image. The uploaded person stands powerfully in the center of a dramatic, dusty industrial environment surrounded by flying debris, smoke and atmospheric particles.
The subject stands upright with a strong, confident presence, shoulders relaxed but powerful, arms naturally lowered and hands relaxed. His body faces mostly toward the camera while his head is turned slightly to one side, but his eyes and face should be looking directly into the camera. This direct eye contact is important.
The expression should be calm, intense, fearless and confident.
Outfit
Dress the person in a loose, distressed black oversized crew-neck T-shirt with short sleeves, realistic cotton texture, subtle tears, dusty surface marks and natural fabric folds.
Pair it with off-white/cream relaxed-fit trousers featuring realistic wrinkles, dust, subtle dirt marks and natural fabric texture.
Keep the outfit rugged and understated.
Pose & Prop
The person should stand firmly with a slightly widened natural stance.
One hand should hold a worn wooden baseball bat or wooden stick vertically beside the body, hanging naturally toward the ground. The grip should look physically realistic with accurate fingers and hand anatomy.
The other arm should hang naturally beside the body.
Avoid exaggerated action poses; the power should come from the subject's posture, direct eye contact and surrounding cinematic destruction.
Background
Create a dramatic dark industrial urban environment with a heavily distressed concrete wall behind the subject.
Add enormous bold weathered typography across the upper background reading “SPIRIT”, with cracked stone/concrete texture and strong dimensional depth.
Surround the scene with:
•	Dense cinematic smoke
•	Dust clouds
•	Flying concrete fragments
•	Small glowing embers
•	Motion-blurred debris
•	Subtle structural damage
•	Atmospheric particles
The environment should feel intense and cinematic without showing gore or graphic injuries.
Lighting
Use dramatic cinematic backlighting with a bright warm explosion-like light source directly behind the subject, creating a strong golden halo around the hair and shoulders.
Add:
•	Warm rim lighting around the silhouette
•	Soft frontal fill on the face
•	Deep atmospheric shadows
•	Bright highlights on floating dust and debris
•	Warm reflections across the clothing
•	Controlled contrast between the dark shirt and bright background
Keep the face clearly visible despite the dramatic lighting.
Composition & Camera
Create a vertical 4:5 cinematic portrait.
Place the person prominently in the center of the frame, occupying most of the image from head to approximately knees/upper legs.
Use a slightly low camera angle to make the 6'9" (205 cm) subject appear tall and commanding while keeping anatomy completely realistic.
Use a professional 50mm–85mm cinematic lens aesthetic, realistic perspective, shallow-to-moderate depth of field and subtle motion blur on foreground debris.
The person's face should remain the sharpest and most important focal point.
Image Quality
Prioritize extremely realistic:
•	Facial skin texture and pores
•	Individual hair strands
•	Natural hands and fingers
•	Realistic clothing fibers and wrinkles
•	Wooden bat texture
•	Dust and smoke particles
•	Flying debris
•	Atmospheric lighting
•	Realistic shadows
•	High dynamic range
•	Professional cinematic lens rendering
Avoid plastic skin, distorted hands, malformed fingers, duplicated features, warped clothing, stretched anatomy or obvious AI artifacts.
Mood
The final image should feel powerful, gritty, fearless, dramatic and cinematic, like a premium action-film character poster combined with a high-fashion editorial portrait.
Photography Style & Quality
Ultra-photorealistic professional men's cinematic photography, dramatic action editorial, gritty urban portrait, cinematic destruction atmosphere, powerful backlighting, warm golden rim light, realistic smoke and dust, distressed fashion styling, detailed skin texture, natural messy hair, cinematic depth of field, high dynamic range, professional camera optics, subtle film grain, sophisticated color grading, extremely detailed, high resolution.
The final image should look like a real professionally photographed cinematic action campaign, not an illustration, cartoon, painting, 3D render or obviously AI-generated image.
Identity priority: Preserve the uploaded person's facial identity and recognizable characteristics. Match the reference image's hairstyle, outfit, pose, wooden prop, typography, industrial environment, debris, smoke, lighting, camera angle, composition and overall cinematic aesthetic without transferring the reference person's facial identity. The uploaded person must be looking directly into the camera.

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