Brass Orrery in the Rare-Instruments Room — AI Portrait Prompt

Use the attached reference photo as the identity reference: keep the same face, skin tone, hair and features as the person in that photo, without beautifying, aging or altering them. Design a full-height 9:16 cinematic artwork that reads on a phone and rewards gallery-scale inspection at exactly 2144x3808 pixels. Location: a rare-instruments room with glass-fronted cabinets and one baize table. Show them in a midnight-blue cardigan over a band-collar white shirt, working a soft brush between two meshed teeth. Make one rigorous physical condition the conceptual engine: a benchtop brass orrery whose stacked gear train holds every planet at tonight's true heliocentric position around a polished central sun slows abstract thought to a speed the eye can follow and verify. Explore why a machine with no memory chips can still remember mathematics perfectly; direct expression and posture toward grounded wonder, never melodrama or ad-like confidence. Frame from a seated observer's eye height, close enough that machined texture stays tangibly present. Make the composition keep the answer's dial or mark small, sharp, and off-center. Render it as engineering-heritage photography combining working mechanical calculation, true kinematic detail, softly aged material finishes, and restrained human-centered contemporary framing, using diffuse overcast daylight held to gentle contrast so engravings stay legible and a palette of aged brass, deep walnut, and one verdigris accent. Photorealistic: this must read as a real photograph from a physical camera, never an illustration, painting, or 3D render. Give the space honest scale: real distance between foreground, subject, and far wall. Resolve real surface detail: glass with real thickness at its edge, reflections that carry the room's actual colour, and dust visible only at grazing angles. Keep one identity-locked person, credible hands and fingers, natural fabric, and coherent scale, contact, reflections, shadows, airflow, deformation, and materials. Background people only when essential, always secondary and clearly different. Avoid steampunk goggles, glued-on decorative cogs, glowing holographic overlays, impossible gear meshes, and clock faces. No text, labels, logos, signatures, watermarks, random symbols, plastic skin, excessive bloom, or glossy AI finish.