Product Marketing - Heroic Dramatic Studio Portrait Prompt (JSON)

A highly structured JSON prompt for generating a heroic, dramatic studio portrait with saturated orange-red lighting and high contrast (chiaroscuro), requiring critical preservation of the subject's facial features and clothing from a reference photo.

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{
  "meta": {
    "title": "Heroic Dramatic Studio Portrait",
    "role": "World-class photographer specializing in editorial portraits",
    "aesthetic": "Dramatic, saturated studio lighting with a heroic feel"
  },
  "constraints": {
    "identity_anchor": {
      "source": "ATTACHED REFERENCE PHOTO",
      "strictness": "Critical",
      "instruction": "Perfectly preserve exact facial features, skin tone, hairstyle, and natural likeness without changes."
    },
    "clothing_anchor": {
      "source": "EXACTLY AS IN REFERENCE PHOTO",
      "strictness": "Critical",
      "instruction": "Style, color, material, and fit must fully correspond to the original without stylization."
    }
  },
  "subject_details": {
    "expression": "Serious, tense, focused",
    "gaze": "Directed away from camera, into space above",
    "universality": "Lighting and angle applicable regardless of gender"
  },
  "composition": {
    "background": "Saturated solid {argument name="Background Color" default="orange-red"} backdrop, smooth intense gradients, no patterns, 'hot' atmosphere",
    "camera_angle": "Low angle (shot from below upwards) to create dominance",
    "framing": "Medium close-up, emphasis on face and shoulders"
  },
  "lighting": {
    "palette": "Dominant bright oranges and deep red shades",
    "key_light": "Strong directional source, deep dramatic shadows (chiaroscuro), emphasizing facial structure",
    "backlight": "Powerful expressive rim light or color halo separating subject from background",
    "mood": "Mysterious, tense, high-contrast"
  },
  "technical_specs": {
    "style": "Photorealism, high detail",
    "focus": "Sharp focus on face vs smooth gradient background",
    "texture_quality": "Preserve natural pores and skin texture"
  },
  "combined_prompt_text": "World-class editorial portrait, dramatic studio lighting, heroic feel. [REFERENCE PHOTO IDENTITY PRESERVED]: Exact facial features, skin tone, hairstyle. [CLOTHING EXACT MATCH]: No changes to fit or material. Expression: serious, tense, focused, looking up and away. Background: Saturated solid orange-red, smooth intense gradients, hot atmosphere. Camera Angle: Low angle shot from below for dominance. Framing: Medium close-up. Lighting: Bright orange and deep red palette, strong directional chiaroscuro key light, powerful rim light separating subject from background. Technical: Photorealistic, high detail, sharp focus on face, natural skin texture and pores."
}
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A candid couple photo of the Woman's Look and Man's Look in the Setting, engaged in the Activity. Render it as the Camera Type, with soft focus, smeared facial detail, color noise, dim uneven indoor light and low-resolution compression. Use awkward webcam framing from a desk-level angle, with a slight tilt and casually cropped shoulders or arms. Include the Era Props naturally in the booth. The couple should look genuinely close and relaxed, with real skin, messy everyday hair and no heavy retouching. Use Face Reference for the matching faces when applicable. Make it feel like an unedited early-2000s personal photo from an old Facebook album or MSN chat, not a modern image with a retro filter. No date stamp, text, watermark, modern electronics or current fashion. Output in the Format.

Use these details:
Woman's Look: "{argument name="woman's look" default="Young woman in her early 20s with straight black hair, a casual graphic T-shirt and a loose zip hoodie"}"
Man's Look: "{argument name="man's look" default="Young man in his early 20s with a thin mustache, tousled hair and a worn casual sweatshirt"}"
Setting: "{argument name="setting" default="A cramped internet cafe booth with a laminate desk, worn carpet, beige walls and bulky CRT monitors"}"
Activity: "{argument name="activity" default="Leaning close together and looking into the webcam during an online chat"}"
Camera Type: "{argument name="camera type" default="Low-resolution built-in webcam capture from a chunky desktop computer"}"
Era Props: [{argument name="era props" default="Wired earphones, A burned CD in a paper sleeve, A chunky desktop keyboard"}]
Face Reference: "{argument name="face reference" default="Use attached photos for the matching person's face when provided; if none are attached, invent both faces"}"
Format: "{argument name="format" default="4:3 landscape"}"

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