Prompt
· English
Long-lens view from across the street of a 79-year-old man standing in the center of a dense crowd, with everyone around him turned to look at him, their faces blurred but their attention focused. The man is giggling behind one hand, the eyes creased, of Southern African descent with rich chestnut-brown skin and an athletic build, tall with a face wider at the jaw than at the temples, green eyes, sharply angled eyebrows, laugh lines around the eyes, soft springy coils of short cropped hair dyed silver-grey with curtain bangs framing the face, a long beard down to the chest, aviator sunglasses, a green polo shirt and beige shorts. The crowd consists of a 41-year-old woman of East African descent with medium olive-brown skin, a petite frame, very tall with a long narrow face, pale light-blue eyes, bushy eyebrows, tight corkscrew curls of chin-length hair dyed cherry red combed into a sharp side part, wincing with one eye shut and the teeth clenched, wearing a yellow cotton sundress with thin straps and canvas sneakers. The blurred faces of the crowd have eyes directed at him, with shoulders of the crowd pressing in. The scene is set in thick fog with a street lamp creating a halo of light and everything beyond it fading to grey, with lines of the surroundings converging on the main figure. The shot uses a tilt-shift lens with a narrow sharp band across the frame and softly blurred top and bottom, passers-by blurred in the foreground. The light is a sodium streetlight halo. Shot on a medium format camera with a tilt-shift lens, showing shallow depth of field and soft bokeh.
