Prompt
· English
View from the pavement through a shop or cafe window, the street reflected faintly over the glass, looking at a 23-year-old man resting lying on a hammock strung between two trees in a backyard. The man is of Southern African descent with warm caramel-brown skin and a muscular build with broad arms, scowling with furrowed brows and a tight mouth. He has an oval face, grey eyes, and soft rounded eyebrows. His hair is springy ringlet curls, shoulder-length, soft black with brown glints, tied in a low ponytail. He wears a thick white bathrobe. A book rests on his chest. The dappled light of the leaves shifts slowly as the afternoon sun begins to dip. A glass of water with a lemon slice sits on the ground. Insects are visible in the shafts of light. The woven texture of the hammock ropes is clear. The lens is a macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, creating a razor-thin plane of focus. The main figure is cut by the frame edge, only part of it in the picture. Rim light comes from behind, creating a thin bright outline around every edge against a dark background. Shot on a macro lens with a razor-thin depth of field, highlighting the texture of the hammock and the rim light on the edges.
