Moonlit Garden Portrait

Create one vertical 9:16 image: a moonlit night portrait of the man in the attached photo, standing alone in a dark walled garden past midnight.

FACE MATCH FIRST: the exact man in the attached photo - same hairline, brows, eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, jaw and cheek width, skin tone, and his own facial hair exactly as the reference, never added, removed or reshaped. Never beautify, slim or smooth the face.

FRAME: three-quarter length, top of the hair to mid-thigh, filling the frame height. Head in true scale to his shoulders. One adult with two arms and two hands.

SCENE: a walled garden past midnight. The wall and garden behind him fall almost entirely to black, only faint shapes readable. A tamarind tree fills the right edge, only its nearest leaves catching a little light. A thin crescent moon is visible high in the frame behind him, just above his head, with one small star beside it in a deep blue-black sky. No lit wall, no glowing plants, no lights in the background.

WEARING: a plain white linen shirt with no embroidery, print or pattern, a simple point collar, top two buttons open, sleeves rolled to the forearm, worn untucked, the linen showing its natural slub texture and soft creases. Dark charcoal trousers. A thin silver kada on one wrist. Nothing over the shoulders - no shawl, stole or scarf. His own hair, slightly loose, a few strands falling forward.

POSE: standing relaxed, weight on the back foot, torso squared to the lens, shoulders dropped, neck long. Both hands pushed into the trouser pockets to the knuckles, thumbs outside, elbows relaxed and slightly out from the body, the shirt hem falling over the wrists. The head bowed about fifteen degrees with the chin tucked toward the collarbone. A small private smile.

GAZE: eyes closed - the lids soft and unsqueezed, the lashes a clear dark line against the cheek.

LIGHT: the moon behind and above him is the key, drawing a hard, narrow, cool-white rim along the crown of his hair so loose strands light as bright filaments, and edging the tops of both shoulders and the outer line of each arm. A small brass lantern sits on the ground just outside the frame, close to the camera at its left, and is the only light on his face and shirt front - warm, weak and low, lighting him from below and in front. The face sits two stops under the rim, still fully legible, cheekbone, nose, lower lip and beard catching the warm glow. The lantern itself is not visible in the frame. Everything behind him is dark.

CAMERA: 85mm at f/1.6, camera at chest height, high ISO, real grain in the blacks, cold blue-black night against the warm lantern on his skin and the white linen.

REAL: a photograph, not a render. Pores visible, beard and stubble reading as individual hairs, a faint shine on the nose and forehead, individual brow hairs, separated lashes, slightly uneven skin, the plain linen weave and creases visible where the lantern touches them. Never airbrushed, waxy or plastic. No lettering, logo or number anywhere.

FINAL CHECK: the face is the reference face, exposed and coloured by the light named above. Plain white linen shirt with no pattern, no shawl, both hands in pockets with thumbs outside. Background dark, moon visible above him, rim light on the hair. Vertical 9:16, no text.