Red cinematic studio portrait — dramatic AI prompt

Create a highly detailed, photorealistic editorial portrait using the uploaded face-reference photographs as the only source of facial identity. Replace the person in the composition with the person from the identity references while preserving their exact age, facial structure, face shape, natural skin tone, forehead, hairline, hairstyle or baldness pattern, eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, ears, jawline, facial-hair pattern, and all permanent visible features. The final subject must unmistakably look like the person in the uploaded identity references, not the individual in the style reference. Recreate the reference composition as a vertical 3:4 portrait with no text, captions, logos, or graphic elements. Position the subject slightly right of centre, filling most of the frame from the upper chest and shoulders to just above the head. The face should be the dominant visual element, occupying approximately the middle and upper-right portion of the image. Leave a controlled amount of negative space around the upper-left side and above the head. Photograph the subject from a dramatic low-angle perspective, with the camera positioned below chin level and tilted gently upward. Use a medium close-up crop showing the complete head, neck, upper chest, and the tops of both shoulders. Place the camera approximately 80–110 centimetres from the subject, using a realistic 50–65mm full-frame lens perspective. Preserve the subtle perspective emphasis on the chin, nose, glasses, and forehead without producing wide-angle distortion. Turn the subject's upper body slightly toward frame-right while keeping the shoulders relaxed and naturally uneven because of the low camera position. The near shoulder should enter prominently from the lower-left corner, while the opposite shoulder remains partially visible along the lower-right edge. Arms and hands remain completely outside the frame. Keep the back upright, with the neck extended naturally and the head tilted slightly backward. Turn the head approximately 20–30 degrees toward frame-right. Raise the chin modestly to create a confident, authoritative posture. The subject's eyes should look slightly upward and beyond the camera toward the upper-right area of the scene. Use a calm, serious, contemplative facial expression: relaxed forehead, naturally closed lips, no smile, no visible teeth, and a focused, self-assured gaze. Avoid aggressive tension or exaggerated emotion. Preserve the subject's real hairstyle and facial grooming from the identity references. Do not copy the reference person's bald head, grey beard, wrinkles, age, or facial proportions unless those characteristics are genuinely present in the identity photographs. Render every individual hair, eyebrow strand, beard or moustache hair, skin pore, subtle crease, and natural tonal variation with realistic detail. Keep the skin authentic and textured rather than airbrushed. Add thin, circular metal-frame eyeglasses similar to those visible in the reference: understated dark gunmetal rims, narrow temples, a delicate bridge, and clear lenses. Position them naturally according to the subject's facial anatomy. Include controlled reflections on the lenses from the orange-red studio lights while keeping both eyes visible and sharply defined. Do not use sunglasses or heavily tinted lenses. Dress the subject in a minimal, dark navy-to-black structured jacket with a matte premium fabric finish. The garment should have a clean, understated silhouette with no visible logos, patterns, buttons, jewellery, or decorative details. Show realistic fabric density, subtle folds around the shoulders and collar area, and very limited reflected light. Most of the jacket should fall into deep blue-black shadow, creating strong contrast with the illuminated face. Use a seamless studio background consisting only of a smooth, saturated colour gradient. The lower-left and middle-left areas should glow with intense burnt orange and fiery red-orange, gradually transitioning into rich scarlet, crimson, and deep burgundy toward the top and right side. The gradient must be clean and atmospheric, with no visible horizon, furniture, architecture, texture, objects, or environmental details. Create dramatic cinematic studio lighting dominated by intense red and orange tones. Place the main warm key light slightly in front of and to frame-right of the subject, positioned near eye level or marginally below, producing a strong orange-red highlight across the forehead, cheekbone, nose bridge, upper lip, and front edge of the face. Allow the highlight to reveal authentic skin texture and facial contours without clipping. Keep the frame-left side of the face in deep, sculpted shadow with cool navy-black undertones. Add a narrow saturated red rim light from behind and frame-left, tracing the outer edge of the head, ear, cheek, jaw, neck, and shoulder. Include a subtle warm reflection along the lower beard or jaw area and a restrained specular highlight on the glasses. Preserve a very high lighting ratio with bold shadows, luminous highlights, and a strong separation between the subject and background. Use a colour palette of fiery orange, saturated red, crimson, burgundy, deep navy, charcoal black, and natural warm skin tones. Apply premium cinematic colour grading with deep blacks, rich contrast, controlled saturation, and smooth highlight roll-off. The red lighting should influence the skin naturally without turning the entire face unnaturally red. Keep the subject's face, eyes, glasses, facial hair, and front facial planes extremely sharp. Use a shallow-to-moderate depth of field around f/2.8–f/4 so the ears and rear shoulder soften slightly while the essential facial features remain clearly resolved. Render the background as a perfectly smooth, softly defocused colour field with no visible texture or noise. The final image should feel like a powerful contemporary magazine portrait or premium cinematic character study: bold, intelligent, serious, mysterious, sophisticated, and professionally art-directed. Use realistic anatomy, natural proportions, physically accurate lighting, high dynamic range, detailed skin texture, subtle film grain, clean tonal transitions, and true high-resolution photographic quality. NEGATIVE PROMPT Different person, copied identity from the reference subject, loss of identity, altered face shape, altered skin tone, incorrect age, copied baldness, copied grey beard, artificial ageing, changed hairstyle, changed hairline, changed facial-hair pattern, generic face, face morphing, beauty-filtered face, plastic skin, waxy skin, excessive skin smoothing, oversharpening, exaggerated wrinkles, distorted forehead, asymmetrical eyes, crossed eyes, incorrect gaze, closed eyes, missing eyes behind glasses, opaque lenses, sunglasses, oversized glasses, crooked glasses, duplicated glasses, warped metal frames, excessive lens glare, smiling, visible teeth, open mouth, exaggerated expression, aggressive expression, lowered chin, front-facing passport pose, high camera angle, eye-level camera, wide-angle facial distortion, fisheye effect, oversized nose, tiny chin, distorted ears, stretched neck, incorrect anatomy, extra shoulders, visible hands, extra fingers, cropped head, cut-off chin, extreme head tilt, incorrect body posture, bright clothing, patterned clothing, logos, jewellery, necklaces, hats, additional accessories, furniture, architecture, scenery, objects, textured background, visible studio equipment, flat lighting, soft beauty lighting, evenly lit face, weak shadows, missing rim light, blue background, pastel colours, washed-out colours, blown highlights, crushed facial detail, colour banding, excessive bloom, artificial glow, heavy fog, motion blur, low resolution, pixelation, compression artifacts, painterly rendering, illustration, cartoon, anime, 3D-rendered appearance, CGI skin, text, captions, typography, watermark, signature, border, poster layout, or logo.