Use the attached image as the primary character reference. Preserve the subject’s recognizable identity, exact facial structure, age, skin tone, eye shape, hairstyle, hair texture and distinctive features.

Experimental cinematic underwater portrait, soft profile close-up framed asymmetrically, photographed through a translucent veil of blurred fish occupying one side of the extreme foreground. The subject is drifting sideways with their chin tilted slightly toward the overhead light and one hand rising loosely through the current near the lower edge of the frame, with a soft, unguarded half-smile beginning at one corner of the mouth and calm, luminous eyes.

Warm pastel washes of blush peach, powder blue, and diluted lavender subtly bleed into one another, fading into pale pearl around the subject’s profile.

The scene is set in clear water with a soft, painterly background that echoes delicate watercolor washes rather than hard digital gradients. Light is gently directional, coming from above and slightly to one side, creating fine, shimmering caustic highlights across the subject’s face, hair, and clothing without harsh contrast. The three-dimensional depth is strong: tiny fish weave through the extreme foreground in creamy blur, the subject remains locally sharp, and a looser cloud of fish softens into color fields in the background.

The subject’s hair follows realistic underwater physics: long, naturally flowing strands are lightly lifted and drawn back by the current, streaming behind the head and shoulders in soft, organic lines. Individual locks catch the moving light and faint reflections from nearby fish, but remain grounded and believable, without exaggerated, gravity-free clouds. Lightweight fabric or a simple top behaves similarly, clinging gently to the body and billowing in a few translucent folds where the water pulls it away, adding subtle transparency and soft highlights.

Pale, almost translucent fish carry scattered champagne-gold and rose-gold flecks across their scales, with faint powder-blue shadows visible through their delicate bodies.

A loose cloud of fish drifts behind the subject’s profile, their overlapping bodies blending into a watercolor-like haze of blush, blue, and liquid gold that frames the eye and jawline, while two smaller fish pass sharply through the narrow plane beside the lips.

Small, champagne-like micro-bubbles and fine suspended particles catch the same light as the fish, creating tiny, sparkling points that echo the shimmer of the scales and reinforce the painterly, glittering effect. Where the light from the fish and water hits the skin, it gently reveals natural pores, fine vellus hair, and wet texture (subtle sheen, micro droplets), maintaining a completely non-plastic, non-airbrushed realism despite the poetic color. The overall mood is luminous joy and soft, meditative wonder at being wrapped in a living, watercolor cloud of shimmering scale and light.

Keep the subject’s eyes and facial features locally sharp, along with a few key fish near the face or shoulders, while most of the school turns into imperfect, painterly soft focus and motion blur in the foreground and background. Fine 35mm film grain, mild halation around the brightest caustic highlights on scales and skin, visible shadow noise in the deeper tones, richly textured and emotionally gentle underwater cinematography.

Negative prompt: plastic skin, flat blue overlay, glossy commercial beauty lighting, flawless airbrushed skin, 3d render, cartoon, harsh studio flash, bathtub look, shallow swimming pool, stiff posed mannequins, generic center framing, smooth digital art, fake CGI fish, uniform color blocks, oversaturated neon gradients.