IDENTITY LOCK: Reference image provides the person's identity only - preserve exact facial features, bone structure, skin tone with natural texture and pores, body proportions, hair texture and length, and unique characteristics. Same person, same gender, same age. Clothing, setting, props, and styling come entirely from the style description below. Zero tolerance for morphing or face blending.
SUBJECT:
- Pose: Facing camera directly, shoulders square and symmetrical to lens, posture upright and confident.
- Gaze: Direct eye contact with lens, engaging and approachable.
- Expression: Genuine broad professional smile with teeth showing, radiating warmth and confidence.
CAMERA:
- Angle & Distance: Eye level, head-and-shoulders portrait crop (bust shot).
- Lens Feel: 85mm portrait focal length, flattering compression, shallow depth of field isolating subject.
LIGHTING:
- Source: Key: Large soft diffused source (softbox or window) from slightly above front; Fill: generous ambient fill creating very low contrast ratio; Rim: subtle separation.
- Quality: Soft wrap-around beauty lighting, virtually shadowless on face except for gentle definition under jawline, broad diffused highlights on skin.
- Color & Grade: Clean neutral white balance (5500K), accurate skin tones, commercial corporate grading, natural saturation, pure whites.
- Texture & Grain: High-resolution modern digital, ultra-clean no grain, smooth polished skin texture with professional retouching feel.
- Camera Type: Modern high-end DSLR/Mirrorless studio photography, sharp clarity.
SETTING: (Place person in this environment)
- Background: Plain neutral light grey/off-white studio backdrop or out-of-focus office wall (critical), smooth gradient, no distinct details.
- Props: None - focus entirely on subject.
- Atmosphere: Pristine professional studio environment, clean and minimalist.
STYLING: (Apply exactly as described)
- Aesthetic: Modern corporate professional, "LinkedIn headshot" style, polished and business-appropriate.
- Era: Contemporary.
- Details: Grey structured blazer with subtle plaid/glen check pattern (critical), crisp white button-down collared shirt underneath (critical), open collar. delicate small pendant necklace. Hair styled with a polished, voluminous blowout look, smooth and neat, appropriate to person's natural hair.
MOOD: Professional headshot context. Projecting competence, approachability, trustworthiness, and corporate success.
NEGATIVE: DIFFERENT PERSON, WRONG GENDER, WRONG AGE, face swap, altered features, smooth plastic skin, changed skin tone, changed hair texture, added/removed hair length, multiple people when should be solo, looking away, serious expression, frowning, harsh shadows, high contrast, moody lighting, dark background, casual clothing, t-shirt, hoodies, outdoor setting, cluttered background, vintage grain, film look, distorted pattern on blazer.