Prompt
· English
High angle from a top corner of the room, looking down across it, of a 25-year-old man of Aboriginal Australian descent and a 42-year-old man of East African descent in a tailoring workshop. The client has a mischievous sideways glance with a sly half-grin, very deep brown skin with cool undertones, a soft heavyset build, and is of average height. He has a long narrow face, amber eyes, sharply angled eyebrows, a beauty mark above the lip, thick coarse straight hair, short cropped hair, jet-black hair colour, in an undercut with the top swept over, and a goatee. He wears a black fine-knit turtleneck and grey wool trousers. The tailor is crying with happiness, tears on the cheeks and a trembling smile, with medium olive-brown skin, broad shoulders and a solid frame, and is very short. He has a heart-shaped face with a pointed chin, warm brown eyes, thick straight eyebrows, springy ringlet curls, very long waist-length hair, soft black hair with brown glints, in neat cornrows, a few days of stubble, and rimless glasses. He is dressed exactly as the role of the brief requires, wearing a tailor's apron over a white shirt and dark trousers. They are in the middle of a fit, with a half-finished jacket on a dress form and pins stuck in the client's own shoulder for reference. A chalk line marking is on the fabric, a thimble sits on a pin cushion nearby, and a single button lies on the workbench. The old manual 50mm lens is wide open, creating a soft glow around bright edges. The light is butterfly light from a lamp straight above the camera, casting a small shadow under the nose. The main figure is on a strong diagonal from one corner to the opposite one. Shot on a medium format camera with shallow depth of field, emphasizing the texture of the wool and the fabric.
