Passing Light — Cinematic Editorial

Use the uploaded user photo as the **ONLY source of the main subject’s identity**. Preserve the user’s exact recognizable identity with maximum fidelity: facial structure, face shape, facial proportions, forehead, hairline, eyebrows, natural eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, cheeks, cheekbones, jawline, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, and all distinctive facial characteristics. **Do not copy or reproduce the reference subject’s identity. Do not beautify, reshape, slim, age, de-age, masculinize, feminize, or reinterpret the user’s face.** The user photo determines ONLY who the person is; the reference image determines how that person appears and behaves in the scene.
Recreate the reference image as closely as possible: a dark, cinematic, high-end editorial fashion poster in a vertical **4:5 composition**. Show the user's identity as a slim young adult standing approximately center-right, framed from the upper legs to above the head. The body faces mostly toward the camera/front while the head is rotated toward the **right side of the image**, creating a strong side-profile/three-quarter profile impression. The subject looks distinctly toward the right, away from the camera, with a calm, serious, contemplative expression. Keep the eyes naturally directed toward the right and maintain the same head rotation, neutral lips, relaxed facial muscles, and thoughtful mood from the reference. Do not use the facial expression, gaze, or head angle from the user's source photo.
Reproduce the exact relaxed posture: shoulders naturally lowered, torso upright, both arms hanging comfortably with both hands placed inside the trouser pockets. Keep the body proportions natural and consistent with the user's identity. Dress the subject in a minimal oversized cream/off-white sweatshirt with contrasting black/dark sleeves, dark ribbed crew neckline and dark cuffs, paired with loose black trousers. Preserve the understated fashion styling and small subtle lettering/detail on the center chest area if appropriate, without introducing prominent logos or additional graphics.
The environment is a dramatic dark industrial/editorial backdrop. Behind the subject is a large charcoal-gray vertical panel occupying much of the right and central background, covered by enormous distressed **orange-brown typography** extending beyond the frame. The background typography is purely part of the environmental design and must remain visible behind and around the subject. Use oversized cropped serif-style letters with a weathered, textured surface, creating a bold luxury magazine/poster aesthetic. Do not add any foreground caption, title, paragraph, promotional copy, or text block in the lower-left area.
The left side of the image contains dark black and charcoal shadows mixed with strong **warm orange motion-blurred light streaks**, glowing horizontal reflections, hazy amber illumination, and subtle smoky atmospheric movement. Preserve the layered motion-blur effect and orange glow, especially along the left edge and lower foreground. The background should feel deep, moody, cinematic, slightly gritty, and atmospheric rather than clean or flat.
Lighting is dramatic and directional: warm amber/orange light falls across portions of the subject's face, neck, sweatshirt, and surrounding environment, while the opposite areas remain deeply shadowed. Create strong cinematic contrast, realistic skin texture, subtle rim lighting, soft highlights, deep blacks, and controlled orange reflections. The face must remain clearly recognizable as the user's identity despite the dramatic lighting.
Camera perspective should resemble a professional fashion-editorial photograph, approximately eye-level with a very subtle low-angle intensity. Use a moderate portrait lens perspective around **50–70mm**, natural proportions, controlled perspective distortion, and moderate depth of field. Keep the subject sharply detailed while allowing the distant background and motion-blurred orange elements to retain atmospheric softness. Preserve the exact subject placement, scale, negative space, cropping, and visual balance of the reference.
Overall aesthetic: photorealistic, premium fashion editorial, cinematic poster photography, dark luxury magazine aesthetic, sophisticated orange-and-charcoal color grading, realistic fabric texture, natural skin pores, subtle film grain, crisp facial detail, high dynamic range, dramatic shadows, atmospheric haze, professional studio/composite photography, ultra-detailed, high resolution.
**STRICT NEGATIVE INSTRUCTIONS:** Do not change the user’s identity. Do not copy the reference person’s facial identity. Do not use the user photo’s original expression, gaze, or head pose. Do not add smiling or exaggerated emotion. Do not alter body proportions unnecessarily. Do not remove or redesign the large orange background typography. Do not introduce new objects, people, logos, captions, watermarks, borders, or decorative elements. Keep the composition, clothing, pose, lighting, background, color palette, and cinematic atmosphere faithful to the reference.

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