SHOT SPECIFICATION — Every line below is a specification, not a suggestion. Match the stated camera height, camera angle, framing, product placement, light direction, shadow behaviour and colour grade exactly.
PRODUCT LOCK — Use the attached photo only as the product reference. Reproduce the product exactly as it is: same silhouette, proportions, colour, material, finish, cap, closure, label layout and logo lettering. Do not redesign it, restyle it, recolour it, or invent or re-letter any text or wordmark. Re-photograph that identical object as the hero of the shot specified below. The product must appear COMPLETE, INTACT and UNDISTORTED in every frame — never deformed, never merged into another object, never with anything resting on it that breaks its silhouette, never missing or duplicating its cap, pump or body.
CAMERA: Square 1:1. Dead level with the middle of the stack, straight on, tripod, 85mm. The stack runs VERTICALLY up the centre and is CROPPED by the bottom edge so it continues below the picture.
COMPOSITION: A precarious tower of whole citrus rising up the centre — a large grapefruit at the bottom cut off by the frame edge; an orange above it; a bright lemon lying on its side above that; a smaller mandarin tucked to the RIGHT at the top of the stack, sitting slightly behind. Balanced on the very top, TILTED about 20 degrees and leaning to the RIGHT as though caught mid-wobble, stands the product, occupying roughly the upper third of the frame. A thick soft cream drip runs down over the lemon and hangs from its underside; two or three small droplets float free in the air beside the stack.
SET: A soft PALE MOTTLED SKY-BLUE backdrop with gentle cloud-like blotching, thrown well out of focus and slightly hazy, darkening very subtly toward the corners.
LIGHT: Soft diffused daylight from the front and slightly left, revealing the dimpled citrus texture and giving the product a gentle gradient. Soft open shadows nestle between the fruit. Nothing hard, no bright speculars on the fruit skins.
GRADE: Soft, hazy and MUTED — pale dusty sky-blue, gently desaturated lemon and muted orange, soft cream. LOW contrast with lifted blacks and a faint milky haze over the whole frame, visible fine grain. Quiet and editorial, never bright, glossy or stocky.
GRADE DISCIPLINE — This is photographed, not rendered. Colour is MUTED, slightly desaturated and filmic throughout, with a gentle tonal roll-off. Never vivid, never punchy, never digitally over-saturated, no HDR clarity, no glossy CGI product-render look, no hard black clipping. Integrate the product physically: correct real-world scale, light direction matched to the scene, a true contact shadow wherever it touches a surface, correct occlusion and accurate reflections — never pasted on. No added text, captions, watermarks, price tags, logos or graphics beyond what already exists on the product itself. No warped geometry, no duplicated caps or nozzles.
