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Durga Puja pandal portrait in a red-bordered saree

A waist-up portrait in the lal paar sada saree worn for Durga Puja, standing before a pandal with the idol softly out of focus behind. Works with your own photo, or on its own to create an original person.

A woman in a white saree with a red border standing in a Durga Puja pandal, the idol soft behind her
The output this prompt produced, unedited.
Works with or without your photo.

Optional. Attach a clear, front-facing photo to keep your own face. Without one, the prompt creates an original person.

The prompt

Subject

She stands square to the camera with her chin slightly lowered and her eyes to the lens, one hand holding the pleats of her saree at the shoulder, the other relaxed at her side. The expression is composed rather than smiling.

Identity

With a photo attached: the person in the photo is the subject. Keep their face exactly as it is, with bone structure, eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, jawline, hairline, skin tone and apparent age all unchanged. Only the clothing, pose, setting and light come from this prompt.

Without a photo: create an original person, a Bengali woman in her thirties with dark hair parted in the centre. Invent the face; do not base it on any real or well-known person.

Wardrobe

She wears a lal paar sada saree: white cotton with a wide red border, draped in the Bengali style with the pallu over the left shoulder. Red and white shakha pola bangles, a thin gold chain, a small red bindi, sindoor in the parting.

Setting

Behind her the inside of a Durga Puja pandal falls away into soft focus, the idol's crown and the red of the backdrop readable as shape and colour only.

Light

Light comes from a warm tungsten source above and to camera right, with a soft bounce from the white saree filling the shadow side of her face.

Camera

Shot on a Nikon Z6 II at 85mm, f/2.0, ISO 800. Eye level, waist-up, subject centred.

Finish

Photographic, natural skin texture, gentle grain, warm grade with the reds held saturated and the whites clean.

Negative prompt

altered face shape, changed jawline, beauty filter, smoothed pores, plastic skin, extra fingers, malformed hands, duplicated bangles, sharp background, text, logo, watermark, signature, border

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How to run this

Copy the prompt and paste it into GPT Image, then set the aspect ratio to 2:3. 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.

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