Just Below the Drinking Rim

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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
Choose the main subject's appearance and clothing, or optionally attach an identity reference. When a reference is supplied, preserve that person's identity and original outfit without copying its background or layout. The scene and camera placement below take priority over showing facial detail.

SCENE AND CAMERA
Place the miniature camera entrance pupil 8 millimetres BELOW the drinking rim and 5 millimetres inside the inner glass wall, in the airspace of the tumbler. Aim upward and slightly sideways with a 24mm-equivalent probe optic toward the exact point where the subject's lower lip meets the near rim. The curved glass lip is an enormous but thin photographic foreground edge crossing the lower middle. The mouth, nose and one concentrated eye fill the upper field at a realistic close distance, with the top of the head and most of the torso physically cropped. Maintain natural facial anatomy, without comically inflating the nose. The subject tips the glass and begins a small sip; a modest amber whisky band rises along the far inner wall at the bottom edge. The holding hand is only glimpsed as a softly magnified fingertip through the side wall. Keep the camera visibly enclosed by the continuous glass walls and same rim, never on the outside of a glass aimed at a face. Focus tightly on lip texture, skin and the small clear rim highlight, with the workshop and whisky soft. Preserve the late-afternoon lighting.

In a late-afternoon workshop near an open doorway, the subject takes a sip of neat amber whisky from ONE ordinary plain clear tumbler, 85 millimetres tall and 70 millimetres across. The drinking edge of this same glass physically touches their lower lip. One hand holds the tumbler from outside. Keep their gaze natural during the sip.

There is ABSOLUTELY NO ICE in this scene: no cubes, icy foreground, frozen inclusions, facets, frost, glass fracture patterns, crystalline patches or cloudy ice sheets. Only smooth clear glass, liquid whisky and air. One tumbler only; no second glass, pouring glass, spoon, bottle, straw or garnish. The viewpoint stays physically within the single tumbler, not outside looking at someone holding a glass. Preserve plausible glass scale and continuous rim/wall geometry. Daylight from the workshop doorway gives warm highlights, cool shadow depth and natural skin texture.

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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