Prompt
· English
Shot through a window pane with raindrops and faint reflections on the glass, a 33-year-old man of Aboriginal Australian descent sits alone in a dimly lit 24-hour diner. He is laughing so hard that his eyes squeeze shut and his head tips back, staring at a cold cup of coffee on the table in front of him. The rest of the diner is empty and silent in the background. The man has warm caramel-brown skin and a plus-size body of average height. He has a long narrow face with warm brown eyes and bushy eyebrows. His hair is styled in soft springy coils, cut in a buzz cut and colored jet-black, wrapped in a patterned headscarf. He has a thin chin-strap beard. He wears an olive bomber jacket over a black T-shirt and grey jeans. A sticky note with a phone number written on it rests on the table. A crumpled receipt sits next to the coffee cup. The flicker of a fluorescent light tube is visible in the background. The lens is an 85mm from a few metres away, compressing the background and softening it. One low desk lamp provides a warm pool of light on the table and dark walls. A blurred object sits close to the lens in the foreground, while the main figure remains sharp in the middle distance. Shot on a full-frame DSLR with an 85mm lens, the image features a shallow depth of field with creamy bokeh and a warm color cast from the desk lamp.
