Restage my photo as a 1990s school yearbook portrait. Mottled blue-grey painted studio backdrop. Direct on-camera flash with a soft-focus filter giving a gentle glow around the highlights. Period styling: feathered or gelled hair, a patterned knit or a collared shirt under a jumper. The classic three-quarter turn with the head tipped slightly toward the camera. Slightly faded colour with a warm cast and visible portrait-film grain. Keep my face, bone structure, natural skin tone and identity exactly as they are in my photo — change the styling around me, never who I am. The result must read as a real photograph: natural skin texture with visible pores, believable light direction and shadow falloff, correct anatomy and hands.
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The soft-focus glow is the era's signature. Without it you just get a photo on a blue background.