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Art style: Cinematic / Realistic / Vintage / Documentary / Warm lighting. A vertical 9:16 contemporary documentary scene set in a calm modern home interior, focused on the emotional role of candles today. The setting should be elegant but simple: a candle resting on a marble or warm wooden surface, accompanied by linen fabric, a ceramic vase, dried flowers, and restrained domestic décor. The composition is a close-to-medium shot in portrait orientation, with the candle placed prominently in the lower central third while the surrounding objects create soft layers of depth. The camera angle should feel intimate and soothing, like a quiet lifestyle documentary rather than advertising. The room should include neutral walls, soft furnishings out of focus, and a sense of clean, lived-in warmth. Lighting is warm and cosy, led by the candle flame and soft ambient evening light from a window or lamp outside the frame. Shadows should be gentle, and the overall scene should feel calm, restorative and tactile. Mood and atmosphere are comforting, reflective and human, suggesting routine, pause and personal ritual. Dominant colours are soft cream, warm beige, muted taupe, pale stone, light wood brown and gentle amber. Textures and materials are essential: smooth marble with subtle veining or natural wood grain, woven linen with visible fibres, matte ceramic, dried stems with delicate texture, creamy wax, and glass or metal candle holder details if present. Depth and layers should be distinct: in the foreground, blurred linen folds or the edge of a table; in the midground, the candle and nearby vase in focus; in the background, a soft sofa edge, wall, or window glow rendered with shallow depth of field. Weather and particles include a faint indoor haze, tiny dust motes visible in warm side light, and a slender smoke trail if the wick has just been adjusted. Micro-details should include melted wax pooling softly at the top, a faint reflection on stone or wood, tiny fibres on the linen, subtle shadows cast by dried flowers, minute imperfections in the ceramic glaze, and the gentle motion of flame reflected in nearby surfaces. The visual should make clear that modern candles are less about necessity and more about atmosphere, memory and emotional space, presented with warmth and simplicity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "Cinematic / Realistic / Vintage / Documentary / Warm lighting" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Cinematic / Realistic / Vintage / Documentary / Warm lighting". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Cinematic / Realistic / Vintage / Documentary / Warm lighting" idiom, not in any other medium.