Phool Mandi Powder Blue Saree

@Image 1 is the identity reference for the woman. Keep her exact same face, same long dark brown wavy hair, same fair-to-light-medium skin and petite 158cm build - same person, unmistakably. LOCKED: face structure, expressive dark brown eyes, hair. FREE: pose, action, expression, framing.

A full-body documentary photograph of her at a crowded Mysuru flower market in the late afternoon. She has just been handed a string of jasmine by the vendor and is mid-laugh, head turned away from camera toward the vendor's stall, both hands busy looping the gajra around her wrist. She wears her powder-blue floral saree, fully draped and modest, with a thin cotton shawl over the shoulders. The moment is the half-second after the joke, before she answers.

Light: 5pm Indian winter sun, low and warm, falling across the lane as a hard side key with deep soft shadow on the fill side, roughly 4:1; stalls block and bounce it; light idea is one warm lane of sun she is stepping into. Camera: 35mm documentary framing at chest height, four meters away, f/2.8, her plane sharp, the crowd behind falling soft. She fills about two-thirds of the frame height, placed left of center with lookroom toward the stall. Environment: marigold garlands hanging in orange ropes, a weighing scale, crumpled newspaper, a parked bicycle, one irrelevant plastic chair. Imperfections: flyaway hairs across her cheek, a crease in the saree pallu, dust on the lane, wilted petals underfoot, faint sweat sheen. Punctum: a single marigold tucked behind her ear, slightly crooked. Palette: warm amber and marigold orange against powder blue, Kodak Portra 400 character. Photorealistic, shot on a real camera. No CGI look, no plastic or waxy skin, no beauty retouching, no over-sharpening, no HDR halos, no watermark or text, no camera-facing soft-smile portrait pose, no head tilt toward lens.