Old-Master Style Portrait

Create one vertical 9:16 image: a portrait photograph for a magazine feature, staged as an old-master sitting, of the man in the attached photo, seated like an old-master sitter before a mottled celadon-and-bronze painted canvas, one statement piece of gold catching the light.

FACE MATCH - TOP PRIORITY: The attached photo is the identity source only. He is that exact man, instantly recognisable, never a lookalike: same hairline, hair colour and texture, brows, eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, jawline, chin, cheek width, skin tone, any mole, freckle or scar in its exact place, his own facial hair, and every facial proportion. Never beautify, slim, smooth or age the face. Take nothing else from the photo - not its light, expression, clothes, pose or background.

FRAME: Seated, hair to just below the knees, his figure filling the frame height; camera 3 metres away at chest height, 85mm lens.

BODY: One real adult with two arms and two hands, the body continuing naturally below the frame; each visible hand four fingers and a thumb, its fingers lying naturally side by side; every limb unbroken, doing only what is described. Head in true scale to his shoulders - never a big head on a small body.

SCENE: A hand-painted mottled canvas in celadon and bronze; a solid walnut-brown block seat at knee height. Nothing else.

WEARING: A hip-length cream silk-brocade bandhgala with a stand collar, full sleeves and covered buttons; one antique-gold oval brooch at the collar; ivory churidar. His own haircut and his own facial hair exactly as in the photo, only neatly combed.

POSE: Seated on the front half of the block, hips and shoulders turned together about 20 degrees to camera-left, knees apart; his left forearm across the top of the left knee, the hand relaxed; the right hand flat on the middle of the right thigh.

GAZE: Face a clear three-quarter, eyes on the photographer's assistant just off-frame at camera-left, not at the camera. Patient, amused: lips closed, one corner lifted very slightly.

LIGHT: Key: a large octabox, neutral white balance, at camera-left about 45 degrees and high. Fill: a white bounce at camera-right, two stops under the key, keeping his skin its true tone. The gold a step dimmer than his face. His face takes the key like the rest of him: the brightest, sharpest thing in frame, a catchlight in each eye.

PHOTOGRAPH: A true photograph on a real camera, not an illustration or 3D render: visible pores, individual hair strands, real brocade and silk; never retouched smooth. One grade - honeyed highlights with deep bronze shadows - with skin tone kept true.

TEXT: No text, logo or watermark anywhere; the canvas and seat are plain, every pattern shapes with no letters.

FINAL CHECK: The face is the exact man in the attached photo, every feature matching, lit by this key - if any feature differs, it is wrong. One intact adult body, limbs and hands exactly as described, head true to scale. Vertical 9:16, no text.