Cinematic Scarecrow Halloween Portrait

Use the uploaded photograph as the ONLY and PRIMARY identity reference for the person. The prompt must work equally for a man or a woman: preserve the person’s natural sex, age, appearance and individual characteristics exactly as shown in the uploaded reference. Do not masculinize, feminize, beautify, de-age, age, slim or redesign the person. STRICT IDENTITY LOCK — HIGHEST PRIORITY: Preserve the exact recognizable facial identity from the uploaded photograph: facial geometry, head shape, forehead, eyebrows, eyes and eye spacing, nose, lips, cheeks, cheekbones, jawline, chin, ears, skin tone, natural skin texture, pores, natural asymmetry and every distinctive facial characteristic. The final image must immediately and unmistakably look like the same real person from the reference. Preserve the person’s natural body type and recognizable silhouette. Do not make the body artificially thinner, more muscular, curvier, taller or younger. Maintain realistic human anatomy and natural head-to-body proportions. Create an ultra-photorealistic cinematic Halloween horror photograph set in an enormous cornfield at twilight. The person stands alone on a narrow path between rows of tall, dry, dead-looking corn. The corn stalks rise around the figure and partially frame the foreground, creating strong depth and an unsettling feeling of isolation. SCARECROW COSTUME: Dress the person as an eerie, sophisticated human scarecrow. The costume is made from distressed dark brown and black fabrics, aged burlap, weathered linen, old leather, frayed seams, patches, loose threads and pieces of dry straw emerging naturally from cuffs and layers of clothing. The costume must follow the person’s real natural body silhouette so the figure remains clearly recognizable. It should look like an expensive cinematic costume from a prestige horror production rather than a cheap Halloween costume. CRITICAL HAT: The person wears a large, unmistakable distressed scarecrow hat. It is made from aged dark brown fabric and weathered burlap, with a broad irregular brim, frayed edges, visible stitching, patches and small pieces of straw. The crown is tall, slightly crooked and naturally collapsed in places. The hat must remain clearly visible and must not cover or obscure the face or eyes. LANTERN AND POSE: The person holds an old-fashioned weathered metal kerosene lantern approximately at face level, slightly beside the face rather than directly in front of it. The lantern emits an intense warm amber-orange flame. The lantern light illuminates one side of the face from below and slightly from the side, creating beautiful but disturbing shadows across the cheeks, nose and eyes. The other side of the face falls gradually into cool twilight shadow. The hand holding the lantern must be anatomically correct, with exactly five natural fingers, realistic joints and grip. The person looks directly into the camera with an unsettling, creepy smile. The smile should feel human and psychologically disturbing rather than monstrous: slightly too calm, slightly too knowing, as though the person has been waiting for someone to enter the cornfield. The expression may change from the reference, but the facial anatomy and identity must remain completely unchanged. No mask. No face paint that hides the facial structure. No stitched mouth. No prosthetic monster face. No skull makeup. The horror must come from the expression, lighting and atmosphere while the person remains completely recognizable. ENVIRONMENT: Endless autumn cornfield at dusk, dry brown corn leaves, narrow dirt path, subtle ground fog drifting between the rows. In the far background stands an old traditional scarecrow mounted on a wooden cross, visible only as a dark silhouette. Several black crows fly across the distant sky. A few dried corn leaves move in the wind. The horizon contains the last dying orange-red light of sunset while enormous blue-black storm clouds dominate the sky. Thin mist hangs low between the corn rows. LIGHTING: Strong cinematic contrast between the warm amber lantern light and the cold blue-gray twilight. The lantern is the primary light source on the face. Subtle cold rim light separates the hat, shoulders and body from the dark cornfield. Realistic volumetric fog, atmospheric perspective, subtle light scattering around the lantern, physically believable shadows and reflections. COMPOSITION: Vertical 2:3 cinematic poster composition, approximately three-quarter to full-body framing. The person stands near the center of the frame with enough surrounding cornfield visible to establish scale and atmosphere. Camera approximately at chest-to-eye level, 35–50 mm cinematic lens perspective. Slightly shallow depth of field: the person, face, hat and lantern remain extremely sharp while foreground corn leaves and the distant scarecrow become progressively softer. Allow generous dark negative space in the upper portion of the frame for the visual feeling of a premium horror-series poster, but do not add any text. VISUAL STYLE: Prestige American gothic horror television key art, psychological folk horror, cinematic Halloween aesthetic, unsettling rural Americana, dark editorial photography, premium streaming-series promotional still, atmospheric rather than gory. Ultra-photorealistic live-action photography, realistic skin pores, individual hair strands where visible beneath the hat, authentic fabric fibers, individual pieces of straw, weathered metal lantern texture, realistic corn leaves, physically accurate lighting, cinematic depth of field, subtle analog film grain, controlled highlights, deep blacks, muted autumn colors, rich amber lantern glow, high dynamic range, 8K-level detail. The image should feel like the official key art for an expensive supernatural horror series released for Halloween — beautiful, eerie, mysterious and deeply unsettling. ABSOLUTELY NO: different face, generic model, identity drift, face replacement, facial beautification, altered age, altered body type, oversized head, tiny body, distorted anatomy, extra limbs, extra fingers, missing fingers, malformed hands, duplicate person, additional people, monster face, zombie transformation, excessive gore, exposed organs, cheap costume, cartoon, anime, illustration, CGI appearance, plastic skin, modern city elements, text, title, captions, logos or watermarks.