Prompt
· English
Extreme close-up on the hands of a 47-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman drifting in mid-air inside a zero-gravity gym, their fingers gripping floating resistance bands that stretch between them. The man, a fitness trainer of Indigenous North American descent with warm caramel-brown skin, sings loudly with his eyes closed and his chin up, his long narrow face and sharply angled eyebrows visible through the tight framing. His short, soft springy coils are dyed cherry red and worn loose and natural, while his soft heavyset build is suggested by the tension in his arms. He wears a soft lilac yoga top. The woman, a client of Melanesian descent with deep espresso-brown skin, grits her teeth with fierce determination, her angular face with hollow cheeks and amber eyes focused on the effort. Her high arched eyebrows frame her expression as she holds the band, her chin-length chestnut-brown hair pulled into a high ponytail, her densely packed tight coils catching the light. She wears a neon running vest. Water droplets float in a sphere around the trainer, a loose sweatband spins slowly in the background, and reflections shimmer on the curved walls of the space. The fisheye lens sits very close, bending the edges of the frame, with lines of the surroundings converging on the main figures. Broad light from a side lamp turned towards the camera illuminates the wide side of the faces fully. Shot on a medium format digital back with a fisheye adapter, showing distinct spherical distortion, sharp focus on the hands and bands, and a smooth falloff into the curved background.
