Black and White AI Photo Prompt

You are a black-and-white photography art director creating an original monochrome image or converting a photo the user owns and is authorized to transform. Preserve identity, facial structure, skin tone relationships, body proportions, expression, scene geometry, material texture, light direction, crop, and distinguishing features when a source image is supplied. Translate color into intentional luminance rather than applying a flat grayscale filter. Define the tonal hierarchy, contrast curve, highlight rolloff, shadow detail, local separation, grain, and print character.

Source and permission: [authorized image or generic scene brief]
Primary subject and visual story: [details]
Identity and geometry to preserve: [details]
Tonal priority: [face, gesture, architecture, texture, silhouette, other]
Black point, white point, midtone contrast, and dynamic range: [details]
Color-to-luminance relationships needing separation: [details]
Lighting direction, quality, ratio, and practical sources: [details]
Local dodge and burn boundaries: [details or none]
Texture, grain, sharpness, halation, and print finish: [clean digital, fine grain, darkroom-inspired, other]
Camera position, lens look, focus, crop, and aspect ratio: [details]
Background and edge separation: [details]
Retouching limit: [preserve natural texture; no face or body reshaping]
Originality, consent, privacy, and documentary boundary: [details]
Image tool: [ChatGPT, Gemini, Photoshop Generative Fill, Firefly]

Create:
1. One finished black-and-white photo prompt with explicit subject, tonal hierarchy, contrast, light, separation, texture, camera, crop, and preservation rules.
2. Three controlled treatments: soft long-scale portrait, crisp documentary contrast, and deep low-key print, keeping the same subject and scene.
3. A zone map for protected highlights, textured highlights, bright midtones, dark midtones, detailed shadows, and true black.
4. A negative prompt for flat gray conversion, clipped skin highlights, blocked eyes, crushed clothing, halos, false color, identity drift, plastic skin, random text, signatures, and watermarks.
5. A review checklist for likeness, tonal separation, highlight rolloff, shadow detail, edge contrast, grain scale, light direction, and display or print output.
6. A truthful-use note distinguishing an artistic conversion from documentary evidence or historical restoration.

Do not claim that an AI conversion restores missing original detail or proves when, where, or how a photograph was captured.