Clockwork Masquerade Steampunk Portrait Prompt

SUBJECT: An elegant figure of your choosing, dressed for the grandest night of the clockwork season: a tailored Victorian coat or corseted gown in deep burgundy and black velvet, brass fittings, gear-motif jewelry, and a magnificent half-mask of polished brass filigree adorned with tiny gears and emerald glass. The visible eye is sharp and mysterious above the mask's edge; posture is poised mid-dance, one gloved hand extended as if caught in a waltz turn. Every fabric fold and metal glint is rendered with lavish detail. BACKGROUND: A grand masquerade ballroom beneath enormous gaslit chandeliers, where elegantly dressed automatons with porcelain faces and brass-masked aristocrats swirl in a waltz. Towering clockwork mechanisms turn slowly behind glass panels in the walls, and candle flames by the hundred melt into golden bokeh. The scene breathes opulence and beautiful machinery. LIGHTING: Warm gaslight cinematography — hundreds of candle flames and chandelier crystals scatter warm golden highlights across brass, velvet, and skin, while deep amber shadows pool in the ballroom's corners. A soft spotlight isolates the subject from the swirling crowd, and the mask's brass filigree throws intricate dancing reflections. CAMERA: Vertical 4:5 portrait composition, shot on a 50mm lens at f/1.8 to keep the subject razor-sharp while the masquerade dissolves into golden bokeh. Slightly low eye-level angle lends the figure a regal stature. Critical focus on the visible eye and the brass mask's filigree, with cinematic warm color grading. MOOD: Romantic, mysterious, and mechanically magical — a waltz frozen at midnight, where Victorian elegance meets clockwork wonder in a portrait of masked intrigue.