Prompt
A real photograph in the observational documentary genre, captured on 35mm film with a 35mm lens at f/5.6 for generous depth of field and open visible grain. A single soft overcast daylight key from high front falls evenly across surfaces with loose open shading gathering lightly under ledges and folds, finished in a plain desaturated grade with honest midtone contrast and unpolished texture.
Wide 16:9 frame. In soft green light at a wooden garden table in the garden of the flat a tall Black man in his mid eighties with a slight stoop, deeply creased dark brown skin, close-cropped white hair and a neat white moustache and a tall lean Ethiopian man in his mid thirties with dark brown skin, a neat short black beard, close-cropped hair and a thin gold chain work side by side repotting a small herb plant into a clay pot, the elder holding the pot steady with both hands while the neighbour pats compost into it with a trowel, a few more empty clay pots and a bag of compost on the table, seen from the side at eye level and framed from the waist up. Each hand has five digits. The elder wears a mustard sweater and the neighbour wears a green quilted vest over a white shirt. No readable words, numbers, logos or brand marks appear; every notebook page, chess-box label and sign is blank or plain colour. The flat is one small ground-floor flat with a green front door, a sunny kitchen with a pine table and a tall window onto a garden.
