REF = the uploaded reference image of a young man's face (Nikola Tesla). Use the exact face, facial features, facial structure, deep-set eyes, eyebrows, nose, neat mustache, high forehead, lean cheeks and dark hair combed back with a side part from REF for the main character. Preserve the identity from REF precisely. Age him slightly to a confident man in his early 40s but keep all features faithful to REF.
ULTRA-REALISTIC cinematic 8K masterpiece, photorealism, hyper-detailed environmental portrait, shot on Sony A1 with 35mm f/1.8 lens, dramatic low-key lighting, late-19th-century atmosphere translated into a real photograph, in the spirit of Caravaggio chiaroscuro and vintage scientific photography.
MAIN SUBJECT: Nikola Tesla, an elegant lean inventor, his face, mustache, high forehead and dark side-parted hair taken exactly from REF — keep the identity and features of REF unchanged. He stands in three-quarter view in the center of his electrical laboratory, caught mid-experiment with a calm, intense, slightly mysterious gaze toward the viewer, as if interrupted at the peak of a discovery. He wears a formal dark late-Victorian three-piece suit with a long frock coat, high white wing-collar shirt and dark tie, immaculate and well-fitted. He calmly holds in one hand a glowing wireless gas-discharge lamp (a glass bulb lit with soft electric-blue light, no wires) that illuminates his face from below; the other hand rests near a brass control panel. Both hands are complete, anatomically correct, with five fingers each; thumbs natural and properly shaped.
CENTRAL DETAILS (razor-sharp foreground): the glowing handheld lamp casting cool blue light; the crackling electric-blue arc from the Tesla coil reaches across toward the glass discharge lamp in his hand, making the lamp glow as if powered wirelessly by the arc; a large brass-and-copper Tesla coil with a clearly structured build — a primary copper coil on a wooden base and a separate helical secondary coil mounted vertically above it on a central support, crowned with crackling electric-blue arcs; all windings tidy, continuous and physically plausible, no floating or disconnected wires; ceramic insulators, brass knife-switches and gauges on a wooden control desk; an open notebook with a period-correct sewn leather binding (stitched pages, no metal spiral, no rings) filled with handwritten equations and electrical diagrams, kept slightly soft and out of focus so the text reads as authentic illegible cursive, not gibberish letters; brass calipers and a magnifying glass.
LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT (rich layered background): a tall late-19th-century laboratory with brick and dark-wood walls, more Tesla coils and induction apparatus, glowing vacuum tubes and Geissler tubes glowing in violet and blue, shelves of glass jars, coiled cables, large electromagnets, blueprints pinned to the walls, wooden scaffolding, tall windows letting in faint moonlight, arcs of electricity reflecting off brass surfaces.
LIGHTING & ATMOSPHERE: dramatic low-key chiaroscuro, the main illumination coming from the cool electric-blue glow of the discharge lamp and crackling Tesla-coil arcs lighting his face and hands, warm amber accents from gas lamps in the background, deep shadows, faint haze and floating dust catching the electric light, intense scientific and almost magical mood.
COLOR PALETTE: deep shadow tones, electric blue and violet glow, warm brass and copper highlights, dark suit blacks, amber background accents, high contrast.
MOOD: the mind of a visionary genius at the moment of invention, the marriage of science and wonder, quiet electric intensity, the dawn of the age of electricity.
TECHNICAL: 4K resolution, 16:9 cinematic aspect ratio, sharp focus on the face (matching REF) and hands, photorealistic skin texture with fine detail, individual hair strands and mustache hairs, realistic glass, brass and electric-arc rendering, cinematic depth with layered background bokeh, high dynamic range, subtle film grain.
IMPORTANT: the face, mustache, hair and forehead must match REF as closely as possible — do not stylize, do not alter the facial proportions or features of REF. The electric arcs and glowing lamp must look physically realistic. No wall clock. The notebook must have a sewn leather binding, never a metal spiral. The Tesla coil must be structurally coherent with no floating wires. Hands and thumbs must be anatomically correct. The scene is a photorealistic photograph, not a drawing or illustration. The theme is Nikola Tesla and late-19th-century electrical invention only.