Prompt
· English
Shoulder-level view at a natural standing height, a little to one side, showing a 73-year-old man of East African descent waiting for a burger in the narrow serving window of a late-night food truck. He is staring jaw-dropped with huge round eyes, his face half-in-shadow under the buzzing fluorescent light of the hatch. He has very deep brown skin with cool undertones, a tall lanky frame that is very short, a face wider at the jaw than at the temples, green eyes, soft rounded eyebrows, and tight corkscrew curls that are ear-length and dyed cherry red, shaped into a rounded afro. A thin chin-strap beard frames his jaw. He wears an olive bomber jacket over a black T-shirt and grey jeans. A grease stain marks the metal counter edge, and a crumpled receipt sticks out of a pocket. The reflection of the streetlamp glows in the truck's window glass. The heavy overcast sky provides soft shadowless light and muted colours. The main figure is framed by the arch of the window inside the picture. A 35mm lens at a conversational distance captures the scene with a natural perspective. Shot on a 35mm film camera with a slight color cast towards blue and green, the image has a gritty, documentary feel with visible grain.
