Prompt
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Rear view from behind and slightly above of a 35-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man sitting at a wooden table, their backs to the camera. The woman, of West African descent with medium olive-brown skin and patches of vitiligo on her face and hands, is mid-yawn with her eyes watering and one hand covering her mouth, while her partner pours tea. She has a lean wiry build, an angular face with hollow cheeks, pale light-blue eyes, and bushy eyebrows. Her tightly coiled zig-zag hair is long, reaching her mid-back, with salt-and-pepper tones combed into a sharp side part, and she wears a light grey three-piece wedding suit with a buttonhole flower. The man, of Aboriginal Australian descent with warm caramel-brown skin, is crying with happiness, tears on his cheeks and a trembling smile visible in profile. He has a short stocky build, an oval face, deep blue eyes, and soft rounded eyebrows. His thick coarse straight hair is jet-black, slicked straight back to chin length, with a thin chin-strap beard. He wears a midnight-blue velvet dinner jacket and black trousers. They are slowly pouring tea from a ceramic teapot into small cups, their hands steady and focused. Steam rises from the teacups in thin wisps. A wooden tray holds small spoons and sugar packets, and the pattern of the ceramic cup matches the bowl. The camera uses an 85mm lens from a few metres, compressing the background into a soft blur with a very low horizon, leaving two thirds of the frame as sky or ceiling. A loop light from a lamp slightly above and to the side casts a soft loop of shadow beside the nose. Shot on medium format film with fine grain and shallow depth of field.
