Use the reference image only to preserve the exact identity of the man. Keep the same facial structure, face shape, skin tone, hairline, hairstyle, age, proportions, and recognizable features. Do not reinterpret or stylize his face. The man must look unmistakably like the person in the reference.
A raw cinematic close-up of the man as an elite professional football player standing inside a stadium tunnel seconds before walking onto the pitch for a major night match.
Frame him from the upper chest upward. He is standing naturally, not posing, slightly turned away from the camera while his eyes remain focused toward the bright stadium entrance ahead. His expression is quiet, cold, and concentrated, with the controlled tension of someone trying to shut out the noise before an important match.
He wears a realistic modern professional football jersey with authentic technical fabric, subtle sweat around the collar and chest, slightly creased material, and a dark compression layer visible underneath. Keep the clothing understated and believable, with no oversized logos or fantasy team branding.
His face must remain the visual priority. Natural skin texture, visible pores, subtle sweat on the forehead and temples, slight redness from physical exertion, faint fatigue around the eyes, realistic lips, and natural facial asymmetry. Do not make him more muscular, more handsome, older, or more aggressive than the reference. Keep his original hairstyle exactly, only slightly damp from sweat.
The tunnel is mostly dark and utilitarian: concrete walls, black rubber flooring, fluorescent ceiling fixtures, cables, and distant staff silhouettes blurred far behind. The bright stadium pitch is visible only as a soft overexposed white-green glow at the end of the tunnel.
Lighting should feel completely motivated by the real environment. Cold fluorescent light from above softly shapes the forehead, cheekbones, and shoulders, while the stadium light creates a thin natural rim around one side of the face. The opposite side falls into deep but detailed shadow.
Shot like a real documentary photograph with a full-frame cinema camera and an 85mm lens at a wide aperture. Very shallow depth of field, slight handheld imperfection, realistic low-light exposure, subtle film grain, natural highlight roll-off, restrained contrast, no artificial HDR.
The image should feel like an unplanned frame captured by a documentary photographer standing two meters away from the player — intimate, expensive, tense, and completely believable.
No sports poster aesthetic, no heroic pose, no exaggerated muscles, no dramatic smoke, no artificial rim lighting, no blue-orange blockbuster grading, no plastic skin, no beauty retouching, no video-game look, no AI-perfect symmetry.
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