Plum Suit Portrait

Facial identity is the highest priority. Photograph the exact man in the attached photo, an adult, not a lookalike or a redesigned model. Preserve the reference hairline, haircut, hair colour and texture, brows, eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, cheeks, jaw, chin, apparent age, skin tone and distinguishing marks. Keep existing facial hair or its absence. Do not slim the face, enlarge the eyes, reshape the nose, lighten the skin or apply beauty-filter smoothing. Use the reference for identity, not its original pose, outfit or background.

Create one photorealistic vertical 9:16 portrait with a quiet cuff adjustment made memorable by a sharp plum suit and a gaze that never leaves the camera. Compose a waist-up portrait with an 85mm perspective at eye level. Place both hands below the sternum and fully inside the crop. The face should be larger in the image than in a full-body fashion shot, with modest headroom and room below the wrist action.

Dress the subject in an aubergine-plum tailored suit over a crisp white shirt with the top button open, a narrow white cuff showing beneath each jacket sleeve and no tie. Stand almost frontal with weight on the left leg and shoulders relaxed. Bend the left elbow so the left forearm rests horizontally at upper-waist height, left fingers open and relaxed. With the right thumb and index finger, pinch the outer edge of the left shirt cuff and draw it out a few millimetres; keep the remaining right fingers together. Keep both wrists below the chest. Hold direct eye contact with a faint closed-mouth smile. Keep the jaw relaxed and retain the person's own natural brow shape.

An empty rehearsal hall has pale stone walls and tall vertical brushed-brass acoustic panels. Two narrow pools of stage light touch the distant floor, suggesting a performance about to begin without showing a stage, audience or equipment. Keep the architecture softly resolved rather than blurred beyond recognition. A large neutral soft key from just left of the lens lights the face, with enough fill for both eyes. A separate restrained warm backlight traces the jacket shoulder. The background pools of light never become spotlights across the forehead or eyes.

The gaze remains up while the hands work low. Adjust fabric only; avoid tiny cufflinks, exposed watch dials, crossed fingers or overlapping hands that cannot be read. Keep real skin texture, individual hair strands and believable fabric weight. Preserve the reference body proportions with natural anatomy, two arms and anatomically correct hands; hidden or cropped limbs must continue plausibly. No extra people, duplicate faces, text, logos, watermarks, clocks, borders or interface. Finish as a clean photograph, not an illustration. Whenever styling or lighting competes with facial likeness, simplify the styling or lighting and protect the original face.