Tar Player in a Candlelit Teahouse

Create a landscape 3:2 cinematic photograph of a musician playing the tar in a traditional Persian teahouse. MUSICIAN A man in his fifties with dark hair streaked with gray and a short gray-streaked beard, in a simple dark shirt and vest. Eyes half closed, absorbed in the music. THE TAR (must be correct) A long-necked Persian lute held horizontally across his lap. Its body is a carved double bowl, figure-eight shaped, with a thin stretched lambskin face. The long fretted neck extends to his left, ending in a pegbox with six tuning pegs. His right hand plucks near the body with a small brass pick held between the fingers; his left hand presses the strings on the frets. It is not held like a guitar against the chest and has no round sound hole. SETTING He sits on a wooden takht bench covered with a kilim. Around him: small glass tea cups on saucers, a brass samovar, a bowl of sugar cubes, hanging lanterns with colored glass, and walls of blue and white tiles. LIGHT AND CAMERA Warm candle and lantern light, deep soft shadows, a light haze in the air. 50mm lens, shallow depth of field, focus on his hands and face. MOOD Intimate, timeless, soulful. AVOID Guitar shape, sound hole, wrong number of pegs, malformed hands, extra fingers, modern devices, harsh flash, text, watermarks.

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tar persian music teahouse candlelight cinematic