Surreal CGI-Photography Hybrid Portrait
Contributed by akykaan
Improved by Laravel Company · 2026-09-07
Improved prompt:
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Creative Brief: Surrealistic Hybrid Portrait Photography
Mandatory Requirements:
- Maintain absolute facial and physical likeness: The woman's identity, facial features, hairstyle, and skin tone must be identical to the attached reference photograph.
- Pose: Compose a surreal, overhead (God's eye) perspective. The subject's upper body and arms must realistically emerge from a flat, horizontal smartphone lying on the ground. Her hands should rest naturally on the phone's screen bezel. Her lower body remains within the phone's digital display.
Subject Details:
Subject's attire:
- Real: A fitted charcoal grey ribbed sweater and white over-ear headphones worn naturally.
- Digital: Dark high-waisted skinny jeans and stylish black leather ankle boots, rendered inside the phone interface with perfect digital clarity.
Expression: A neutral, contemplative gaze, directed upward and slightly inward, as if lost in thought.
Attitude: Confident yet thoughtful. The subject should appear engaged with her digital world while still grounded in the physical environment.
Environment Specifications:
Setting: A minimalist, gray concrete or similar surface texture, devoid of distracting elements.
Smartphone Props: An iPhone 16 model. Ensure the device is displayed at a flat, horizontal angle, occupying a central position in the frame.
Screen Content:
- Music App: The screen must show an active music player interface, with a specific track:
- Song: "Lions In a Cage" by Pentagram
- Progress: 0:41 / 5:59
- Background Image: A warm sunset scene featuring silhouetted palm trees against a deep blue sky.
- Music App: The screen must show an active music player interface, with a specific track:
Cinematography Guidelines:
Camera Angle: Exclusively high top-down (bird's eye) view, capturing both the real-world subject and the digital screen at once. Maintain a 90-degree angle relative to the ground.
Lens: Utilize a 35mm wide-angle to create a seamless transition between the physical and digital realms, ensuring perspective consistency.
Lenses and Aperture: Employ an aperture of f/8 to maintain sharp focus across both the subject and the digital screen content.
Lighting: Blend soft artificial overhead and frontal lighting with the warm, diffused glow from the phone's screen. Use medium contrast levels and diffused shadows to create an intimate, indoor atmosphere. The lighting palette should be slightly warm and desaturated, mirroring a cozy domestic space.
Color Scheme: Establish a neutral gray-white dominance in the real-world setting, contrasting vividly with the warm oranges, deep reds, and greens emanating from the sunset interface on the phone.
Style: Perfect the integration of CGI and photography. The image should evoke a sense of whimsy, surrealism, and immersive technology, while maintaining photographic realism in the subject's depiction.
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Original prompt (before our improvements)
{ "prompt_type": "Surreal CGI-Photography Hybrid Portrait", "subject": { "reference_identity": "Crucially, the woman's facial features, hair, and unique identity must match the provided reference photo exactly.", "expression": "Neutral expression, gazing upward.", "pose": "A surreal full-body composition viewed from above. Her upper torso and arms emerge physically from a smartphone screen lying flat, hands resting on the screen's bezel. Her lower body is digitally contained within the screen's display.", "attire": { "upper_body_real": "Attractive daily wear: A fitted, charcoal grey ribbed knit sweater. White over-ear headphones are on her head.", "lower_body_screen": "Attractive daily wear: Dark high-waisted skinny jeans and stylish black leather ankle boots, rendered digitally within the phone interface." } }, "environment": { "setting": "A minimalist gray concrete surface where a black smartphone lies flat.", "screen_content": "The smartphone display shows a music player app interface. Track: 'Lions In a Cage' by Pentagram. Timestamp: 0:41 / 5:59. Background visual on screen: A warm sunset with silhouetted palm trees.", "props": "Iphone 16" }, "cinematography": { "camera_angle": "High top-down view (God's eye angle), looking straight down at the phone and emerging subject.", "lens": "35mm wide-angle lens, creating perspective integration between the real and digital worlds.", "aperture": "f/8 for deep depth of field, keeping both the physical subject and the screen content sharp.", "lighting": "Soft artificial overhead and frontal lighting mixed with the warm glow emanating from the smartphone screen. Medium contrast, diffused shadows. The lighting palette is slightly warm and desaturated, mirroring an intimate indoor setting.", "color_palette": "Neutral gray-white dominant palette in the real world, contrasted by the warm oranges, deep reds, and greens from the sunset interface on the screen.", "style": "Digital CGI blended seamlessly with photography. Whimsical, surreal, tech-inspired, and immersive mood." } }