Dakar Plateau Portraits

The Dakar Plateau register

This pack draws on the Plateau's own dress code — a slim navy suit for the working week, a grand boubou in rich bazin with a matching cap on Friday. The palette runs arcade cream, Atlantic blue, bazin white-and-gold, and the pirogue colors of Gorée's harbour: the vocabulary of Dakar's business class moving between colonial-era arcades and new glass towers.

Three situations carry the register: standing at a colonnade's edge on a Plateau avenue, traffic and old facades behind; walking the Corniche's clifftop toward the camera, jacket over the shoulder, the Atlantic below; and Friday, in the full grand boubou before a whitewashed wall with bougainvillea, a host's smile. The output is photoreal — a real-looking business photoshoot senegal portrait of you, not a painting.

How to photograph yourself for a Dakar photoshoot

Better source photos make better portraits. The pack works with an ordinary phone selfie — the free preview tells you in seconds — but a few things sharpen the likeness before you commit to the full pack.

1. Even, soft lightStand near a window with indirect daylight. Avoid overhead bulbs and flash.
2. Front or three-quarter angleEye level, facing forward or turned slightly. No selfie-stick uplook.
3. Face fully clearHair off the forehead, no sunglasses — a clear face gives the model the most to match under the cap.
4. A composed, confident expressionThis register reads as Plateau boardroom, not a casual smile — a level, assured gaze suits the arcade and the Corniche.
5. Plain background is fineThe arcade, the clifftop, and the bougainvillea wall replace whatever's behind you — a plain wall just helps the model focus on your face.

Frequently asked questions

Will it actually look like a real Dakar photoshoot?

Yes. The output is photoreal — a real-looking photograph of you in a navy suit under a Plateau arcade, on the Corniche with the Atlantic behind, or in a grand boubou on Friday. Not a painting, not a cartoon.

Which scenes does the pack cover?

Three that trace a Dakar week: a Plateau arcade in the morning, the Corniche at midday, and Friday's grand boubou at a whitewashed wall. Nine portraits, three per scene.

How is this different from a generic AI headshot tool like HeadshotPro or Aragon AI?

Those give you a stock studio backdrop and call it done. This gives you the actual Plateau, the actual Corniche, and Friday's actual dress code — three genuinely different Dakar scenes from one selfie, not one grey background repeated nine times.

Can women use this pack?

The suit and grand boubou render as a male sitter by default. Dakar Almadies covers the female creative-professional register separately.

Does it look like me, or a generic model?

Whichever face you upload drives the render, so the nine come back looking like you in the suit and the boubou, not a stock actor.

What if my source photo isn't great?

One clear, front-facing selfie is enough. The free preview shows the likeness in seconds — if it's off, lighting is the usual fix.

Can I use it commercially?

It's for personal use — LinkedIn, prints, gifts — not licensed stock photography for resale or ad campaigns.

What happens to the photo I upload?

Processed on European servers, used only to generate your preview and pack, never sold or shared.

Who is this pack for?

Anyone with a Plateau desk, a Dakar family, or a Friday grand boubou of their own — and anyone who wants a LinkedIn photo that reads boardroom-on-the-Corniche rather than generic office.

When the Dakar Plateau pack fits

• A LinkedIn photo that reads Plateau boardroom, not generic office
• A press kit photo for a founder or executive doing business in Senegal
• A Friday profile picture in the grand boubou register
• A gift for someone from Dakar, or with Senegalese heritage
• A framed portrait for a home office or study
• A diaspora keepsake — the Corniche and the boubou, from a photo taken anywhere
• A dating profile photo used honestly as styled AI portraiture
• A creative writing or game character reference for a Dakar businessman
• Anyone who's walked the Corniche at sunset and wanted to see themselves dressed for it

About narcis

Most AI portrait tools ship every pose, profession, era, and aesthetic in one giant catalog. The output looks like every other AI photo on the internet — a glaze over a stock face. Narcis goes the other way. One tool, one job: turn photos of you into portraits worth keeping. Drop a selfie and your free preview streams in seconds — a quick sketch: close, not you yet. For portraits that are truly you, train your own model on 12 to 20 photos; it trains in the background, and we email you when it is ready. Train once, render everywhere — this pack, every other pack, and the Studio all come out of that one model, about ten seconds a portrait, and it stays yours to retrain or delete. Each pack is hand-curated against actual references — paintings, photographers, registers — and tested on real faces before it ships. See a free preview before you pay, not after. Packs are one-time — no subscription to buy one; Studio, the unlimited composer, is optional at €12/month and every pack includes 30 days of it. No template generator. Built and run by one team, on our own infrastructure.