Create a backlit golden-hour portrait.
Subject: a young woman from the chest up. Long dark brown hair worn loose with soft waves and
many fine flyaway strands lit bright gold by the sun behind her, several strands falling loose
across her cheek and jaw. Bare skin with fine natural texture and faint freckles, natural brows,
a warm red lip, minimal makeup. She wears a fitted rust-orange textured knit top with a soft
scooped neckline and short sleeves.
Action: standing with her body turned 15 degrees to her right, shoulders relaxed and slightly
dropped. Head tilted forward and down, chin lowered toward her chest, eyes nearly closed looking
downward, lips softly closed, expression quiet and inward.
Setting: an outdoor setting thrown far out of focus into soft dark brown and amber shapes with a
faint warm glow behind her, no readable objects, buildings or horizon.
Visual style: photoreal natural-light portrait photography, warm amber and deep brown palette,
shallow depth of field, soft haze catching the light, fine natural grain, gentle lens softness.
Composition: vertical frame, camera at eye level, subject centred and filling most of the frame,
head occupying the upper half, cropped at the chest, dark blurred space falling away either side.
Lighting: low warm sun from behind and to her right, throwing a bright golden rim along her hair,
right shoulder and collarbone, warm light spilling across her cheek and jaw, deep open shade on
the shadow side of her face, strong falloff into near-darkness at the frame edges.
Text inside: none.
Constraints: never light her flatly from the front — the sun stays behind and to her right, never
lift the chin or open the eyes toward the lens, never smile or part the lips, never bring the
background into focus or add readable objects, never smooth or airbrush the skin, never cool or
desaturate the warm palette, never brighten the frame edges, never crop below the chest, never add
props, jewellery, text or a watermark.
Output: 9:16 vertical.
