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A premium social-media or travel-lifestyle portrait showing a personal beach moment with a Golden Retriever while preserving the subject's real facial identity.
photorealistic beach portrait, Golden Retriever, 4:5 portrait, coastal lifestyle, natural sunlight, human-dog interaction, light-gray sleeveless shirt, blue ocean, premium editorial, DSLR photography
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Lighting
LIGHTING Use beautiful natural late-morning/early-afternoon coastal sunlight: warm natural sunlight soft highlights across the face and arms
Color
IDENTITY — MOST IMPORTANT Keep my exact: facial structure and face shape eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips and jawline cheekbones and ears natural
Background
The composition should feel like a spontaneous premium lifestyle photograph rather than a staged studio portrait
Camera
POSE Recreate the relaxed, affectionate pose shown in the reference: seated naturally near the shoreline upper body slightly leaning toward
Composition
Create a highly realistic, premium lifestyle portrait of ME using my uploaded personal photo as the PRIMARY IDENTITY REFERENCE
Technique
The prompt uses a layered identity-first structure: the uploaded personal photo controls facial identity, while the reference controls the r
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Issues you may encounter and how to fix them
Why it happens
Keep the approximately f/2.8 setting but reinforce that both faces must remain within the primary focus plane, with background separation occurring behind the subjects The scene contains many strong visual instructions, and the model may prioritize the attractive beach setting or reference styling over the uploaded identity.
Fix
Keep the PRIMARY IDENTITY REFERENCE instruction at the beginning and retain the explicit requirements for facial structure, eyes, nose, lips, jawline, hairline, beard pattern, age, and skin texture.
Why it happens
The prompt asks for shallow depth of field while also requiring both faces to be sharply focused.
Fix
Keep the approximately f/2.8 setting but reinforce that both faces must remain within the primary focus plane, with background separation occurring behind the subjects.
Why it happens
The composition requires one arm to wrap around the dog's upper body while the other arm remains natural, creating a multi-subject interaction with several overlapping limbs.
Fix
Retain the explicit instructions for realistic hands and fingers, natural arm proportions, relaxed shoulders, and a comfortable arm position around the dog's upper body.
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What each part of this prompt means
Core technique
The prompt uses a layered identity-first structure: the uploaded personal photo controls facial identity, while the reference controls the requested pose and visual styling. Composition is then constrained with a 4:5 frame, large dual-subject framing, a 50mm lens, approximately f/2.8, and selective background softness. Natural sunlight, realistic skin and fur detail, and restrained color grading reinforce the intended professional vacation-photograph appearance.
Recommended base models
GPT-Image-1 — well suited to image-reference workflows where preserving a person's identity and following a detailed scene description are central. Flux — a strong option for photorealistic people, clothing, environmental detail, and natural beach lighting, though identity consistency can depend on the reference workflow. SDXL — useful when detailed negative prompting and control over anatomy, fur, and composition are important, but may need stronger identity/reference conditioning. Midjourney — capable of the premium coastal editorial look, but the exact facial-identity requirement can be harder to control than in reference-focused workflows.1qa`
Suggested negative prompt
different person, different face, face swap, altered facial structure, changed face shape, plastic skin, excessive skin smoothing, beauty filter, artificial complexion, unrealistic eyes, asymmetrical eyes, distorted hands, extra fingers, missing fingers, fused fingers, malformed arms, unnatural human-dog interaction, awkward pose, distorted Golden Retriever, incorrect canine anatomy, duplicate dog, extra dog limbs, artificial fur, CGI, 3D render, cartoon, illustration, anime, fake smile, exaggerated muscles, altered body proportions, oversaturated ocean, excessive HDR, harsh artificial lighting, excessive sharpening, blurry face, blurry dog face, low-detail fur, unrealistic water, unrealistic beach texture, watermark, logo, text, caption, border
Variation notes
The prompt is strongest when the 50mm perspective, f/2.8 depth of field, and instruction to keep both faces sharp remain together; making the background separation much stronger could cause the dog or coastline to lose useful detail. Removing the explicit identity-preservation section would likely increase facial drift, while replacing the light-gray sleeveless shirt or blue-ocean setting would change the prompt's intended summer-lifestyle character.
This prompt works with popular AI image generators.
ChatGPT
Prompt helper
Midjourney
Image model
Leonardo AI
AI creator
Gemini
Google AI
Stable Diffusion
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Quick answers before you copy this prompt
This creates the specified affectionate composition while keeping both faces prominent and allowing the person's arm to wrap naturally around the dog's upper body.
The prompt specifically requires both faces to remain large and clearly visible while retaining enough ocean, shoreline, and rocky coastline to establish the beach setting.
It calls for a sandy/pebbly shoreline, ocean waves, rocky coastline, bright sky, natural coastal sunlight, and a spontaneous human-dog interaction instead of controlled studio lighting.
The aperture supports the requested shallow but natural depth of field and subtle background separation while keeping both the person's face and the dog's face sharply focused.
