Red room, checker floor

Light: one hard spotlight from high on the left behind the camera, a bright pool on him and the tiles, his long hard shadow falling down and to the right across the checkerboard, the far corner of the room sinking into dark red-brown. Moment: he stands still with his hands behind his back, head tipped back, a cool still look straight up into the lens. The man from the reference, slim, his hair changed for this shoot: cropped very short and bleached platinum, with thin red lines dyed into it in a loose geometric pattern; a small silver stud in one ear; a cropped dark-indigo denim trucker jacket covered in loose cream chain-stitch doodle embroidery (abstract squiggles and swirls, no letters, no words), no brand tab, no logo; the collar of a rust-red polo shirt showing at the neck; oversized pale-grey pleated wide trousers; polished black leather loafers. Place: a bare room with dusty oxblood-red walls and floor, a section of large red and cream checkerboard tiles, nothing else. Composition: high angle from a ladder above and in front of him, looking down; he stands in the right half of the frame, his face in the upper half, his shoes on the checker tiles near the bottom; the dark red wall and floor in the upper left empty. Keep his face, freckles and skin tone exactly as in the reference (only the hair is changed as described), but render the skin as on film, never as in the reference.

Use it with one reference photo of your own model, labelled as identity only. The other seven frames and the style block that goes after every line are in the full set.