The Drained Dry Dock · Brutalisti

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MAKE IT YOUR OWN

The prompt behind the perspective.

Adapt the subject, keep the camera. These reusable prompts are based on the examples; your results will vary.

Create one photorealistic 16:9 cinematic film still, edge to edge.

SUBJECT
There are two distinct people: one standing and one seated on a single chair. Choose their appearance and clothing, or optionally attach one identity reference for each person and label their roles. When references are supplied, preserve each person's identity and original outfit without merging the people or copying the reference background. Keep both people at the scale and distance specified below.

SCENE AND CAMERA
An enormous empty ship-repair dry dock lies in harsh afternoon sunlight. Use a static locked-off camera on the upper rim, looking obliquely along its full length through a wide 24mm lens. Far below, the subject stands on the dry concrete floor beside a single yellow folding chair occupied by a second person, dwarfed by terraced retaining walls, parallel service rails, and the distant steel dock gate. Their full standing height is approximately 3% of the image height; they occupy substantially less than 5% of the frame area. Keep them genuinely tiny. Most of the composition is empty, weathered concrete and monumental geometry, with no ship or crowd. The main standing character faces the second person seated on the chair as though arriving for a meeting in an impossible location. the second person sits naturally, tiny within the huge dock, at the same realistic scale as the standing person. The chair shares their ground plane and realistic scale. Strong receding lines organize the negative space; only a narrow strip of blue sky and one distant crane appear above the rim. Crisp sunlit surfaces, deep structural shadows, oppressive stillness. Do not enlarge the subject or invent close-up facial detail.

COLOR GRADE
Apply a rich, naturalistic cinematic grade: deep steel-to-slate blues, luminous golden accents, grounded olive greens and warm stone neutrals where those colors occur. Preserve the scene's light sources and time of day, natural skin tones and recognizable garment colors. Keep firm contrast, deep readable blacks, detailed midtones, controlled bright highlights and crisp photographic texture. Use only subtle grain. Avoid washed blacks, artificial teal-orange separation, excessive HDR, plastic skin, heavy grain, broad bloom and diffusion haze.

IMAGE CONSTRAINTS
No writing, letters, numbers, signage, branding, logos, labels, watermarks or captions anywhere in the image. Keep relevant surfaces plain and unlettered. One separate photograph only; no border, montage, split screen or contact sheet.

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