The Wall Repair That Stopped on Day Two — 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. Build a portrait 4:5 editorial artwork with protected negative space and a fully readable face at exactly 2560x3200 pixels. Location: a spare room where a wall repair stopped on day two. Show the subject in a grey zip hoodie over a white tee and jeans, closing a toolbox lid over its unused tray. Let one honest object carry what the face will not: a wardrobe rail sorted by sleeve length for one arm's width, then given over to the week's unsorted washing shrinks a fortnight's plan to one thing they can actually finish. Explore what it takes to finish one item from another week's list; expression occupied, not expressive, carrying flat competence, difficulty stated with the flatness of ordinary fact. Place the camera low beside the floor work so the room rises unemphasised. Make the composition keep the untouched half in frame, never in the way. Render it as museum-catalog interior portraiture assembled from lived-in apartment texture, plain natural colour, credible clutter, and calm documentary distance, using flat mid-afternoon daylight through a half-curtained window with low, even contrast and a palette of flat greige walls, dark walnut, and one muted terracotta note. Photorealistic: this must read as a real photograph from a physical camera, never an illustration, painting, or 3D render. Resolve real surface detail: the difference between a wiped surface and a clean one, faint tide marks on ceramic, and metal dulled unevenly by touch. 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 hero poses, wellness-catalogue serenity, head-in-hands despair, meaningful gazes at camera, and before-and-after staging. No text, labels, logos, signatures, watermarks, random symbols, plastic skin, excessive bloom, or glossy AI finish.