Prompt
· English
View from inside a wooden kitchen cupboard looking out through the open door, a 40-year-old man with a lopsided smirk standing on the counter. The man is of Northern European descent with light beige skin and a plus-size body, his diamond-shaped face with high cheekbones and deep blue eyes turned slightly away from the lens, sharply angled eyebrows raised, a thin silver nose ring catching the light. His hair is platinum-blonde, short cropped but styled in shoulder-grazing locs, and he wears a faded denim jacket over a plain white T-shirt. He holds a dark ceramic coffee pot, pouring a stream of black coffee into a white mug on the counter. The coffee is frozen in mid-air, with a single bean suspended in the air and steam frozen in a spiral shape above the mug. A small crumb sits on the edge of the wooden counter. The scene is captured with a 14mm ultra-wide lens, causing the vertical lines of the cupboard shelves to lean inward, showing the whole space in one frame. The man is positioned off-centre on the left third of the frame, leaving the right side to show the interior of the cupboard. A single bare tungsten bulb hangs from the ceiling above the counter, casting hard warm light and sharp shadows below every object. Shot on a medium format digital camera with a prime lens, featuring sharp focus on the frozen coffee and a shallow depth of field that blurs the background shelves.
