Create an underwater fashion portrait.
Subject: a young woman suspended underwater. Long honey-brown hair fanned wide and
drifting upward around her head in loose strands, lit warm from behind. Bare face, no
visible makeup, wet skin, eyes closed, lips softly parted. She wears an off-white
open-weave crochet dress — a fitted sleeveless bodice with a scooped neck and thin
straps, gathered at an empire waist into a full A-line skirt with an open pointelle
pattern and a scalloped picot hem falling to mid-thigh, the skirt lifted and drifting
around her. Legs bare.
Action: floating upright and weightless, both arms out to her sides but angled about 20
degrees below the shoulder line, elbows softly bent, wrists loose and hands relaxed with
fingers drifting downward. Head tilted back, chin lifted, face turned up toward the
surface. Legs close together and nearly straight, the near leg drifting forward toward
the lens and the other trailing behind, knees soft.
Setting: clear turquoise-green freshwater, the sun a soft white bloom above and behind
her head through a rippling surface. Slender green stems rise around her to broad round
lily pads floating on the surface in soft silhouette. Fine silver bubbles scattered
through the water, denser near the surface.
Visual style: photoreal underwater photography, rippling caustic light dappled in soft
ovals across her skin and the dress, gentle particulate haze, warm skin against muted
blue-green water.
Composition: low angle from below and in front of her, camera roughly 40 degrees beneath
her and tilted upward. Moderate wide lens with mild, natural perspective — the near leg
reads slightly larger, nothing more. Her body running diagonally through the frame with
her head in the upper third at natural scale. Cropped at her shins so the feet fall
outside the frame.
Lighting: backlight from the sun above and behind, soft god rays angling down through
the water, cool shadow in the lower depths, warm dappled light across her front.
Text inside: none.
Constraints: never shoot from directly beneath her, never use a fisheye or extreme
wide-angle lens, never enlarge the legs or shrink the head, never splay the legs into a
wide V, never straighten the arms into a rigid T at shoulder height, never show the feet
or the soles, never open her eyes or level her chin, never let the dress hang static,
never tip her into a backward-falling pose, never oversaturate the water into hard teal,
never add fish or coral.
Output: 3:4 vertical.
