80s Prom Photo

Restyle the person in this photo as a prom night portrait taken in a school gymnasium in 1985. Preserve facial identity exactly: bone structure, eye shape and spacing, nose, jawline, mouth and any distinguishing marks stay recognisably the same person, and the skin tone stays exactly as it appears in the photo. Change only hair, wardrobe, pose, lighting and background. Hair: teased high at the crown and curled into loose ringlets at the shoulders, held with a wide satin bow. Wardrobe: a powder-blue taffeta gown with enormous puffed sleeves, a fitted dropped waist and a full gathered skirt. Accessories: a white wrist corsage of carnations and a thin gold chain. Background: an arch of pastel balloons, a few feet behind the subject so it falls off into shadow at the edges of the frame. Lighting: a hard direct on-camera flash as the only real light — bright and flat on the face, a crisp shadow thrown low and close behind the shoulder, hot specular highlights on satin and skin, and the corners of the frame dropping quickly into darkness because nothing else in the room is lit. Pose: one hand resting on the opposite forearm, a wide closed-lip smile, standing, weight on one hip, slightly stiff and posed for the photographer rather than caught naturally. Framing: vertical three-quarter-length portrait from mid-thigh up. Film character: consumer colour negative pushed a stop, warm and a little green in the shadows, noticeable grain, the whites slightly blown where the flash hits hardest. Quality: an authentic amateur-feeling 1980s prom photograph, sincere rather than parodic.