REFERENCE HANDLING — read this first: IMAGE 1 is a color and light reference ONLY. Take ONLY its golden hour warmth, its low sun quality, its atmospheric haze, its film grain, halation and faded muted contrast. IGNORE its subject matter entirely — do NOT copy any car, road, city, person or framing from it. No character reference for this shot — there is no person in frame. The scene content comes from this text alone. SCENE: Cinematic film still, wide establishing shot. A single old wooden village house standing alone at golden hour, seen from across an overgrown yard. The house is small and weathered — horizontal plank siding in faded pale blue-green paint, peeling in places, a rusted metal roof, carved window frames, a low wooden porch with two steps. One window on the near side glows warm from within, the low sun striking the glass. Thin smoke rises straight up from a brick chimney. Around the house: tall dry autumn grass, a leaning wooden fence with missing boards, two large old birch trees with sparse yellowing leaves, fallen leaves scattered across the ground. No other houses anywhere — empty fields and a distant treeline behind, no roads, no cars, no people. The house sits in the right third of the frame with open empty space to the left. A few blurred out-of-focus grass stalks in the immediate foreground along the bottom edge. LIGHTING: one single source only — very low golden hour sun coming from the left, raking almost horizontally across the grass and the plank siding, long shadows stretching toward camera, thick atmospheric haze catching the light between the trees. Sun near the frame edge creating a soft anamorphic flare. No fill light — everything facing away from the sun falls into cool shadow. COLOR: warm amber #E8A85C on the sunlit siding, grass tips and haze. COOL TEAL #1E5F6B in the shadow side of the house, under the trees and in the foreground grass. The autumn foliage must be MUTED faded yellow-ochre and dry brown, NOT vivid red or orange. Faded film grade, blacks lifted and milky not crushed, saturation 78 percent, strong halation bloom around the lit window and the sun flare. Shot on ARRI Alexa 35, vintage anamorphic 32mm at T2.8, oval bokeh, slight edge softness, Kodak Vision3 250D emulation, 6 percent 35mm grain. Photorealistic cinematic establishing film still, 16:9.
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