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Festive Lehenga Portrait
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The complete prompt
Use the uploaded user photo as the ONLY source of the subject’s identity. Preserve the user’s exact recognizable facial identity and natural appearance, including facial structure, proportions, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, jawline, cheeks, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, and all distinctive facial characteristics. Do not copy the identity or facial features of the reference subject. Do not beautify, reshape, slim, age, de-age, masculinize, feminize, or otherwise reinterpret the user’s face. The user’s identity and natural gender presentation must remain unchanged. Use the reference image only as the visual blueprint for the scene, expression, pose, styling, composition, camera, lighting, and atmosphere.
Recreate the reference as a photorealistic, high-end festive Indian cultural portrait. Show the user as the main subject in a medium-full to full-body composition, positioned slightly left of center and facing mostly toward the camera in a graceful three-quarter body orientation. The subject stands upright with a relaxed, elegant posture. The head is held naturally with a subtle turn toward the camera. Reproduce the reference facial expression: calm, confident, composed, slightly serious yet approachable, with relaxed lips and a subtle natural softness rather than a broad smile. The eyes look directly toward the camera with a steady, gentle gaze. Match the reference eye openness, eyebrow position, mouth shape, head rotation, neck position, and emotional mood while preserving the user’s identity.
The subject wears an elaborate traditional Indian lehenga outfit matching the reference styling: a black richly embroidered and mirror-worked lehenga skirt with intricate multicolored floral and geometric embellishments, small reflective circular mirrors, colorful decorative borders, and dense handcrafted detailing. The skirt is wide and flowing, spreading dramatically across the lower frame. Include a matching fitted black embroidered blouse/choli with a modest scoop neckline, colorful mirror-work embroidery, ornate trim, and long fitted sleeves. Add a richly decorated multicolored dupatta draped over the subject’s right shoulder and flowing outward toward the right side of the image. The dupatta should contain vivid orange, magenta, green, blue, red, yellow, and black sections, dense traditional embroidery, mirror work, patterned borders, floral motifs, and highly detailed textile craftsmanship. Preserve realistic fabric weight, folds, stitching, reflective mirrors, and natural draping.
Recreate the pose precisely: the subject’s right arm extends outward toward the right side while holding or allowing the decorated dupatta to flow behind and beside the body. The left arm bends naturally downward and outward, with the left hand gently grasping and lifting a section of the black lehenga skirt near the lower-left portion of the frame. The lifted fabric forms elegant curved folds and a sweeping silhouette. Keep the hands anatomically correct with natural fingers and realistic proportions. The flowing skirt and dupatta should create a dynamic sense of movement while the subject herself remains poised and graceful.
Add traditional Indian accessories consistent with the reference: ornate silver-toned jhumka earrings with multiple hanging elements, and a small delicate pink flower tucked naturally into the hair near the side of the head. Keep accessories realistic and proportionate. Preserve the user’s own hairstyle and identity-defining hair characteristics as much as possible, while arranging the hair into the long, voluminous, softly wavy side-swept appearance shown in the reference without changing the person’s identity. If facial makeup is visible, use subtle elegant festive makeup appropriate to the reference while retaining the user’s natural facial characteristics.
Place the subject in a lively outdoor Indian festival or cultural celebration. The background contains colorful triangular bunting flags strung horizontally across the upper portion of the scene in vivid pink, orange, yellow, blue, green, and purple. Include warm glowing string lights and numerous circular golden bokeh lights scattered through the background. Behind the subject, show a softly blurred festive crowd of people wearing colorful traditional clothing, with reds, yellows, blues, greens, and oranges. Include colorful decorated structures or fabric-covered stalls toward the right background, with warm illumination and festive ornamentation. The background should feel crowded, joyful, colorful, authentic, and celebratory while remaining strongly out of focus so the subject is the visual priority.
Use warm golden-hour or late-afternoon ambient light combined with glowing decorative festival lights. Illuminate the subject with soft, flattering natural light that reveals the face, hair, jewelry, embroidery, and mirror-work details. Create warm highlights on the reflective decorations and subtle soft shadows for dimensionality. Maintain realistic skin texture and natural facial detail; avoid plastic skin or excessive retouching. The colorful background lights should produce attractive creamy circular bokeh.
Camera perspective: eye-level to slightly low eye-level, positioned approximately at the subject’s upper-torso height, with a natural portrait lens perspective around 50–85mm full-frame equivalent. Use moderate camera distance sufficient to capture the complete flowing lehenga and extended dupatta while keeping the face prominent. Use shallow depth of field with the subject sharply focused and the background strongly blurred. Preserve realistic perspective, natural body proportions, detailed textile rendering, cinematic separation, and soft bokeh.
Composition should closely match the reference: vertical portrait framing, approximately 4:5 aspect ratio. Keep the subject’s head around the upper-middle portion of the frame, with generous background space above and around the body. The sweeping black skirt fills much of the lower portion, extending toward the bottom-left and bottom-center, while the multicolored dupatta expands dramatically toward the right edge. Do not crop the important hands, face, clothing details, or flowing fabric. Maintain the same visual balance between the centered subject, expansive lower garment, flowing right-side dupatta, colorful crowd, bunting, and glowing lights.
Overall aesthetic: highly realistic professional fashion photography blended with authentic Indian festive photography, cinematic warm color grading, rich saturated textile colors, detailed handcrafted embroidery, realistic reflective mirrors, natural skin texture, soft atmospheric depth, creamy bokeh, subtle filmic character, crisp subject detail, realistic fabric physics, premium editorial quality, high dynamic range, and photorealistic rendering. The final result must look like a real photograph captured during a vibrant Indian cultural celebration, not an illustration or digitally painted image.
ABSOLUTE PRIORITY: the uploaded user photo determines WHO the person is; the reference determines HOW that person appears in this scene. Never copy the reference person’s identity. Preserve the user’s exact identity while transferring the reference’s expression, emotion, gaze, head position, body posture, hand placement, clothing concept, accessories, environment, composition, camera perspective, lighting, color palette, and overall visual behavior. No extra people in the foreground, no distorted hands, no duplicated limbs, no facial alteration, no identity drift, no artificial plastic skin, no text, no watermark, no logos.Copy the complete prompt and use your own reference photos where requested.
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