Dublin. New Year's Eve. 11:23 PM.
They are being watched. Their face does not know it yet.
I · Narrative Sample
INT. DUBLIN APARTMENT — NIGHT — 11:23 PM
The room is precise. Not clean — precise. Every object in its position through repetition, not design.
CLOSE ON: a face. The SUBJECT sits at the desk, face turned slightly upward toward the window. The lamp to their left splits their features with surgical precision — the left side in warm amber, the right half dissolving into void. Not dramatic. Exact.
Their expression: a person who controls their environment as a form of survival. Not peace. Containment.
Behind them, over their shoulder, the city has begun to fragment with early fireworks. Cold blue light arrives at the room's edge. They do not turn toward it. They have already accounted for it.
On the desk beside them — barely in frame — a phone, face-down. Its shadow falls in the wrong direction.
(They are being watched. Their face does not know it yet.)
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II · Condensed Visual Prompt
Low-angle close-up portrait of a subject at a Dublin apartment desk, late night. A single lamp splits their face precisely in half — warm amber on the left, deep shadow consuming the right. Their gaze lifts slightly toward a window where New Year's fireworks fracture into cold blue. Behind them: a room assembled through habit, barely visible in soft focus. Thin grid lines trace the walls. Expression: contained, precise, already inside something larger than the room. Surreal, oneiric, oil painting fused with photorealism. 2:3 portrait, 8K, no text.
III · Extended Visual Prompts
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Version 01
Extended — Full Scene Specification
USE UPLOADED PHOTO REFERENCE: Place the uploaded person as the subject — preserve their face, hair, skin tone, eye color, and physical features exactly. Do not alter their appearance. Portrait format, 2:3 ratio. Low-angle close-up portrait, the subject's face filling the upper two-thirds of the frame. They sit at a desk in a Dublin apartment, 11:23 PM New Year's Eve, face turned slightly upward toward the window. A single warm golden lamp to their left splits their face with absolute precision: left side in amber light, right half dissolving into deep black void. The split is surgical and exact. Their expression is contained precision — not fear, not calm, but the specific stillness of someone who controls their environment as a form of survival. Behind them over their shoulder, soft-focus: a city beginning to fragment with early fireworks, cold faded-blue arriving at the window's edge uninvited. The room beyond: coat on a hook, bottles organized by proximity, a dark humming laptop. Thin geometric grid lines barely visible on the walls — the architecture of observation the subject cannot see. In the lower frame, nearly cut off: a phone face-down, its shadow falling toward a light source that does not exist in this room. Warm gold dominant, deep black void in the right side of the face and room recesses, cold faded-blue at the window edge. Oil painting texture fused with photorealistic portraiture, razor-sharp focus on the subject's eyes, atmospheric depth behind, subtle film grain, 8K museum print quality, no text, no logos.
Version 02
Condensed — Book Version
Low-angle close-up portrait of a subject at a Dublin apartment desk, late night. A single lamp splits their face precisely in half — warm amber on the left, deep shadow consuming the right. Their gaze lifts slightly toward a window where New Year's fireworks fracture into cold blue. Behind them: a room assembled through habit, barely visible in soft focus. Thin grid lines trace the walls. Expression: contained, precise, already inside something larger than the room. Surreal, oneiric, oil painting fused with photorealism. 2:3 portrait, 8K, no text.
Version 03
Midjourney — Ready to Paste
Low-angle close-up portrait of a subject at a Dublin apartment desk, late night. A single lamp splits their face precisely in half — warm amber on the left, deep shadow consuming the right. Their gaze lifts slightly toward a window where New Year's fireworks fracture into cold blue. Behind them: a room assembled through habit, barely visible in soft focus. Thin grid lines trace the walls. Expression: contained, precise, already inside something larger than the room. Surreal, oneiric, oil painting fused with photorealism. 2:3 portrait, 8K, no text. --ar 2:3 --style raw --v 6.1
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