Monochrome Appraising Gaze

High-contrast black-and-white portrait, vertical 4:5, chest-up. Use the man from the reference photo — carry over his exact facial features with full precision: face shape and bone structure, eye shape, spacing and lid depth, eyebrow thickness and arch, precise nose bridge and tip, lip shape and fullness, jawline and chin, ears, hairline and hair texture, beard density and pattern, and his skin tone rendered honestly in monochrome — expression fully freed from the reference. He stands close to a rough textured plaster wall, wearing a dark open-collar shirt and a black wayfarer-style pair of sunglasses pulled slightly down his nose. The hand pose, exactly this: his right hand comes up beside his right eye so that only the thumb and index finger grip the right temple arm of the sunglasses at its hinge — a small, precise two-finger contact — drawing the frames a centimetre down the bridge of his nose; the remaining three fingers curl softly into the palm, held away from the face, and the hand touches nothing but the temple arm. Both eyes look up and over the top edge of the frames, straight into the lens. His one expression: an appraising over-frames lock — brows a fraction raised, eyes sharp, mouth level. Discard the reference photo's lighting entirely: one hard directional key from camera-right rakes across the scene — it lights the camera-right side of his face brightly, throws the nose shadow hard across the camera-left cheek, and drags every ridge of the plaster wall into relief; in monochrome his skin reads in true silver-grey tones, the exposure honest to a single hard source with deep black shadows, and a hard bright catchlight sits above the frame line in each eye. Ultra-realistic 8K-level detail: pores, beard stubble, flyaways, the acetate sheen of the frames and the fine knurling of the hinge rendered true, subtle film grain, his head sized naturally against his shoulders — head and body in true natural proportion, exactly as a real camera would capture him. A photograph, never a render. Color story: monochrome — ink black, bright silver, mid-grey plaster.