Prompt
· English
View from the pavement through a shop or cafe window of a 44-year-old Micronesian woman alone on a wet city street, the street reflected faintly over the glass, with an 85mm lens from a few metres compressing the background and softening it. She is walking down the street in a fine drizzle, holding a closed umbrella that has just been dropped, wincing with one eye shut and her teeth clenched. Her warm caramel-brown skin shows beads of water clinging to her coat and hair, and reflections of shop lights shimmer on the glossy pavement while a puddle forms around her shoe laces. The main figure breaks a repeating pattern that fills the rest of the frame. She has a petite frame of average height, a square face with a strong jaw, amber eyes, and thin fine eyebrows. Her fine pin-straight hair is very long and waist-length, dyed cherry red, and gathered into a top knot. She wears an unbuttoned red flannel shirt over a black tank top and worn jeans. The scene is lit by clamshell light from above and below, creating an even glow with a bright catchlight in her eyes. Shot on a full-frame digital camera with a fast prime lens, the image exhibits shallow depth of field, natural color grading, and realistic texture in the wet surfaces and fabric.
