Create a corporate headshot.
Subject: a woman in her early thirties from the chest up. Shoulder-length brown hair with soft
waves, parted to one side and tucked lightly behind her right ear. Natural professional makeup —
defined brows, soft neutral eyeshadow, a warm pink lip. Small pearl stud earrings. She wears a
navy tailored blazer with notch lapels over a white blouse with an open V neckline.
Action: head and shoulders angled 10 degrees to her right, head turned back so the face is almost
square to camera. Chin level, direct steady gaze into the lens, warm closed-lip smile with the
eyes engaged, shoulders relaxed and level.
Setting: a plain light grey studio backdrop, softly graded from just behind her head outward, no
props, texture or visible seam.
Visual style: photoreal professional portrait photography, natural skin texture with visible
pores and fine lines, clean neutral colour, sharp focus on the eyes with a very gentle falloff at
the shoulders.
Composition: vertical frame, camera at eye level, head centred and filling the upper two-thirds
of frame with a little space above the hair, cropped mid-chest, shoulders reaching both side
edges.
Lighting: soft broad key from the front and slightly left with a softer fill from the right,
gentle shadow under the jaw and one nostril, soft round catchlights in both eyes, a light hair
separation from behind, no harsh shadow anywhere.
Text inside: none.
Constraints: never overly smooth or airbrush the skin — pores, texture and fine lines stay
visible, never widen the smile to show teeth, never look away from the lens, never tilt the head,
never add a hard rim light or coloured gel, never blow the backdrop to pure white or drop it to
black, never crop above the collarbone, never add props, hands, jewellery beyond the studs, or a
visible desk or office behind.
Output: 2:3 vertical.
