Press Wall — Paparazzi Portrait

Use the uploaded [reference image] as the subject's exact face, likeness and skin tone. Create a hyper-realistic, photorealistic image in full colour. Subject: a man at the centre of a press scrum, head and shoulders filling the middle of the frame, chin level and expression composed and unreadable as cameras fire around him. Wardrobe: a black tailored blazer over a black roll-neck jumper, and black rectangular sunglasses with a thin metal browline. Setting: a crowded press line. A dense ring of handheld microphones on black foam windshields pushes in from the bottom of the frame toward his face, their flags plain matte black and completely unbranded. Behind and around him, out-of-focus photographers hold professional cameras with large lenses, several flashes firing at once. Lighting: hard direct flash from multiple angles, bright specular highlights on the sunglasses and hair, deep falloff into shadow behind the crowd. Camera: chest-up portrait at eye level, 85mm lens, subject tack sharp with the microphones nearest the lens softly blurred in the foreground. Colour: rich full colour, warm amber tungsten light behind the crowd against cool white camera flashes, deep true black wardrobe rather than grey, warm natural skin tones. Mood: intense, cinematic, the moment before someone speaks. Rendering: ultra-detailed and razor-sharp, natural skin texture with visible pores and fine detail, individually rendered strands, realistic foam windshield texture and lens glass, believable flash falloff, true-to-life colour grade, no distortion, no extra fingers, correct anatomy. Add a small, subtle, semi-transparent "promptybox.com" watermark in the bottom-right corner. Aspect ratio 9:16. Optimised for Gemini and ChatGPT / DALL·E (also works in Midjourney). Parameters: --ar 9:16 --style raw --v 6 --stylize 320 --quality 2 --seed [insert seed] --iw [insert image weight 1-3 for the reference face] --no black and white, monochrome, greyscale, desaturated, distortion, extra limbs, warped hands, text artifacts, readable network logos, brand names on microphone flags, gibberish lettering