Orrery in the Pattern Shop — 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 university pattern shop lined with wooden casting molds on shelves. Show the subject in a grey twill shop coat over an olive cotton shirt, blowing brass filings from a fresh-cut gear blank. Build the artwork around this material rule: a benchtop brass orrery whose stacked gear train holds every planet at tonight's true heliocentric position around a polished central sun keeps every step of its reasoning open to a patient observer's eye. Explore why a machine with no memory chips can still remember mathematics perfectly; direct expression and posture toward measured reverence, never melodrama or ad-like confidence. Use a composed 35mm environmental view placing the subject and the machine as equal patient subjects. Make the composition hold quiet empty space where the finished answer will arrive. Render it as gallery-grade technical realism built on lawful mechanism kinematics, precise engraved detail, tactile wood-and-metal textures, and emotionally intelligent portrait lighting, using late golden hour entering low and level, gilding brass without glare and a palette of warm umber, pale vellum, and one muted teal accent. Photorealistic: this must read as a real photograph from a physical camera, never an illustration, painting, or 3D render. Give the air depth: falloff with distance and no artificial clarity far back. Resolve real surface detail: thread ends and slight pilling on worn cloth, hairline chips at every hard corner, and stone that is porous rather than smooth. 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 floating weightless gears, sepia steampunk grading, cog-filled head silhouettes, Roman-numeral dials, and oversized watch-movement props. No text, labels, logos, signatures, watermarks, random symbols, plastic skin, excessive bloom, or glossy AI finish.