The Visitor Who Waits

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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.
REFERENCE INPUT
The attached character sheet is the identity and original clothing reference for the main subject. Depict that same person once, preserving their face, apparent age, hairstyle, proportions, clothing, footwear, and accessories wherever visible. The scene determines their pose and expression. Do not reproduce the sheet's three-person layout, white background, studio lighting, or color treatment. A hidden face stays hidden and a distant figure stays small.

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
Look from inside a dark apartment through the actual optical peephole of its closed front door into a dim corridor at night. Place the viewpoint directly behind the door viewer at approximately 155 cm above the floor. Show a centered circular view of the corridor surrounded by the photographed near-black interior of the peephole assembly. The photograph fills the 16:9 image edge to edge; the surrounding darkness is physical optical obstruction within the scene, with no added graphic border or vignette. Use the characteristic very wide, roughly 160-degree door-viewer field of view: strong barrel distortion near the circle's perimeter and a comparatively stable center.

The subject stands about 60 cm from the outside of the door, looking straight into the peephole. Their face sits near the center, recognizable and unsettlingly still, with the upper torso visible below. Their head has believable close-range perspective; do not stretch the central face into a caricature. One hand rests against the outside door below the peephole and is outside the optical view. Do not reveal that hand through the door.

A narrow corridor recedes behind the visitor, with bowed doorframes near the optical edges, an old radiator, and a warm wall sconce several meters away. Cool ambient light from the stairwell keeps the face readable; the sconce provides a faint golden rim along one shoulder. Keep the outer corners completely obstructed and preserve subtle softness toward the lens perimeter. The visitor's expression is patient and unreadable, their gaze fixed on the hidden viewer. No open door, second visitor, face pressed against glass, surveillance interface, or view of the person inside the apartment.

Photographic take 02: make a fresh photograph of this same scene, with a small natural variation in posture or expression where visible and subtle differences in framing within the specified viewpoint. Preserve the required action, occlusion, prop placement, subject scale, and lighting.

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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