Create a dark rim-lit eyewear portrait.
Subject: a young man from the chest up. Dark hair worn short with a faded taper at the sides and
textured length on top, individual strands catching the light from behind. Clean-shaven, defined
jaw, warm skin. He wears narrow black wraparound sunglasses with dark opaque lenses, and a black
coat with a wide stand collar turned up around the neck forming a deep V at the chest.
Action: head turned 30 degrees to his left and tilted down about 15 degrees, chin lowered, face
angled away from the lens and looking down past it. Shoulders square to camera, lips closed,
expression still and unreadable.
Setting: a near-black studio field with a faint cool blue haze catching the light behind his head
and shoulders, no props, texture or horizon.
Visual style: photoreal low-key portrait photography, cool blue-black palette, deep unlifted
blacks, natural skin texture with visible pores, fine film grain.
Composition: vertical frame, camera at eye level, head centred in the upper half of frame, the
turned-up collar filling the lower half and reaching both frame edges, cropped at the chest.
Lighting: a single hard cool rim light from behind and above his right shoulder, tracing a bright
white-blue edge along the top of his hair, his brow, the upper frame edge of the sunglasses, his
cheekbone and jawline, with a second fainter rim along his left side. Almost no frontal fill — the
front of the face reads mostly in shadow with only the rim defining its shape. Deep falloff into
pure black at every frame edge.
Text inside: none.
Constraints: never light the face flatly from the front — the key stays behind him, never lift the
blacks or add fill light to the coat, never turn the head to the lens or level the chin, never
lighten, clear or reflect the lenses — they stay dark and opaque, never remove the rim light on the
hair and jaw, never smile or part the lips, never crop above the chin, never overly smooth or
airbrush the skin, never add props, jewellery or a second figure, never warm the cool palette,
never add a visible light source in frame.
Output: 2:3 vertical.
