1980s Mahabalipuram Tourist Portrait

FACE MATCH IS THE TOP PRIORITY. This is the exact man in the attached reference photo, not a lookalike. Copy his face feature by feature - hairline, brows, eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, jawline, beard pattern, skin tone - every proportion identical. Never beautify, broaden or genericise.

Mahabalipuram, 1980s, mid-morning. POSE, framed the way tourists were photographed then - the subject standing well forward of the monument so the whole of it fits behind him, full-body head to feet, centred, squared to the lens, arms straight at his sides, palms flat to the thighs, fingers together and countable, feet together, a slightly stiff at-attention stance. Behind him the granite Shore Temple and a flat sea horizon. DRESS: a sky-blue half-sleeve shirt with a wide pointed collar tucked into grey high-waisted pleated trousers, a brown leather belt, closed dark leather sandals. ORNAMENTS: a thin gold chain, a steel watch. GAZE: eyes straight to the lens, both eyes open and unshaded, the barest squint against the brightness, a plain pleased smile. Open sun from camera-left keys his face brightest with clear catchlights and no shadow across his eyes; the blown sky and pale granite run well over his face, his sky-blue shirt a step under it. Full body, vertical 4:5. No readable text anywhere.

CAMERA: a 35mm SLR on Kodak Gold in open daylight - warm consumer-print colour, gentle contrast, mild grain, a pale washed sky holding no cloud detail, greens shifted yellow, shadows a touch cyan, the corners softening slightly. FILM FIDELITY LAW: the period look lives entirely in the grain, colour, contrast and light of the photograph - never in the face. Facial geometry and every feature stay sharp, correctly exposed and exactly readable; grain never smears the eyes, nose or mouth, and no scuff, fade, stain or damage ever falls on a face.

GROOMING: features and hairline stay exactly as the reference; only styling moves to the period - his own hair side-parted with a light oil sheen and swept clear of the forehead, the front hairline fully visible and exact, sideburns to the ear, his own facial hair groomed to the period moustache over clean-shaven cheeks, without added density. PERIOD LAW: strictly 1980s South India - every vehicle, object, garment and surface period-correct. Everything in frame predates 1990 and every face stays bare with nothing worn over the eyes. All styling, jewellery, grooming and makeup stays South Indian and of the decade. SIGN LAW: any board, poster, notice or printed surface is period-accurate in colour but deliberately soft and unreadable - brushstrokes only, no formed letters in any script, no readable words or numbers anywhere, and no date stamp. CROWD LAW: background figures appear only far behind, small and indistinct with no readable face; nobody else shares the subject's focal plane or touches the subject.

LIGHT LAW: every face is lit only by this scene's own light - same direction, colour temperature and softness, shadows falling exactly as the environment dictates - never a pasted studio face.

FINAL CHECK: compare against the attached reference - the identity must match exactly; if any feature differs from the reference, it is wrong.