Prompt
· English
Steep high angle from a staircase or a balcony above, looking down, of a 74-year-old man and a 77-year-old woman sitting at a small table in a 24-hour diner. The man, grinning proudly with the chest out and the chin up, is of Southeast Asian descent with light beige skin, a muscular build with broad arms, of average height, a square face with a strong jaw, warm brown eyes, thick straight eyebrows, a thin silver nose ring, and large loose curls of shoulder-length snow-white hair in shoulder-grazing locs, wearing a faded denim jacket over a plain white T-shirt and black jeans. He holds a menu with prices written in faded red ink. The woman, rolling the eyes in exasperation, is of Southern African descent with warm golden-tan skin, a lean wiry build, very short stature, an angular face with hollow cheeks, amber eyes, high arched eyebrows, patches of vitiligo on the face and hands, and springy ringlet curls of ear-length hair dyed cherry red cut into a choppy pixie, wearing a yellow cotton sundress with thin straps and canvas sneakers. She watches a night-shift worker in a white uniform and cap cleaning the counter in the background. A coffee cup with a napkin underneath sits on the table. Shot with a tilt-shift lens with a narrow sharp band across the frame and softly blurred top and bottom, light from a projector beam with dust floating in it and the colours of the projected image falling across, the main figure as a dark silhouette against a bright background. Shot on medium format digital camera with tilt-shift effect, sharp focus on the center, and a blue neon color cast from the window.
