Black and White Low-Key Portrait Image-to-Image Prompt

One prompt set generates the result—posters, covers, product shots, or series.

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Transform the uploaded image into a dramatic, high-contrast low-key portrait. The image must be strictly black and white monochrome. Preserve the original subject identity from the uploaded image, including subject type, pose, proportions, silhouette, expression, texture, existing clothing, and existing accessories. Do not change the identity, replace the styling, or add clothing, accessories, props, or decorative elements that are not present in the original image.

Keep the subject facing the camera or following the original main direction. Present the image with strong visual impact. Use sharp side lighting and split-light contrast so one half of the subject naturally falls into deep black shadow while the other half is clearly defined, emphasizing existing details, material, contours, and surface texture. Use a pitch-black, minimal, distraction-free studio background so the subject emerges naturally from darkness.

The mood should be cinematic, mysterious, restrained, and melancholic. Use an 85mm lens look, ultra-realistic high-end studio portrait photography, deep shadows, fine detail, strong black-and-white contrast, low-key lighting, and realistic texture.

Negative requirements: do not add clothing, accessories, props, humanize the subject, change the subject type, change the original styling, exaggerate the expression, add elements not in the original image, over-beautify, make it cartoonish, use an illustration style, or add color.

Only upload images you have the right to use. Avoid sensitive or unauthorized portraits.