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Diwali doorway portrait with oil lamps

A warm festival portrait lit almost entirely by diyas. Publish it six weeks before Diwali, not on the day.

This prompt needs a photo of your own.

The prompt

Identity

Use the uploaded photo as the only source of the subject's identity. Keep the face exactly as it is.

Pose

She stands in a doorway, body angled slightly into the frame, one hand lightly on the door frame, looking towards the camera with a calm, warm expression.

Wardrobe

She wears a silk anarkali in deep maroon with gold thread work at the neckline, and a thin gold maang tikka.

Setting

The threshold is lined with clay diyas and a small rangoli in chalk colours. Behind her the interior falls away dark and unfussy.

Light

Lit almost entirely by the diyas: low, warm, coming from below and in front, with a soft blue ambient from the open air behind her for separation.

Camera

Shot on a Sony A7 IV at 85mm, f/1.8, ISO 800. Eye level, three-quarter length, subject centred in the doorway.

Finish

Photographic, warm and slightly contrasty, natural skin texture, no glow effect.

Avoid

glowing skin, plastic retouching, altered face, floating lamps, duplicated diyas, extra fingers, cartoon flames, text, logo, watermark

Negative prompt

glowing skin, plastic retouching, altered face, floating lamps, duplicated diyas, extra fingers, cartoon flames, text, logo, watermark

imagefestival and devotional

How to run this

Copy the prompt and paste it into GPT Image, then set the aspect ratio to 3:4. Upload your reference photo before pasting, not after: a model that has already started without it will invent a face instead of keeping yours.

The prompt is written in Markdown with each part under its own heading, which is what the copy action hands over. Change one section at a time, keeping the rest intact, so you can tell which change did the work.