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Baker Raises the Shutter Before Dawn at a Bakery

A baker with a thick red-brown beard and a white paper cap, in a white jacket, black apron and grey trousers, pulls up a roll-up shutter above a bakery window with a long hooked pole at predawn, racks of bread glowing inside and a street lamp and cool blue sky behind.
Baker With Dwarfism Character Reference Sheet

Prompt

A real photograph in documentary service-business photography, captured on 35mm film with a 50mm lens perspective, selective depth of field and fine visible grain. One open-shade daylight source from camera left gives soft directional modelling, keeping midtones readable as shadows fall gently to the right. Warm-neutral colour, natural texture and an observant, unpolished finish. Wide 16:9 frame. A baker with dwarfism in his early forties with fair freckled skin, a thick red-brown beard and a white paper bakery cap stands on a quiet street at predawn in front of a small neighbourhood bakery, seen from across the street at eye level and framed from head to knees, using a long hooked pole in both hands to pull the roll-up front shutter upward above the shopfront window. His hands hold the pole with four fingers curled round it and the thumb on top, exactly five digits visible or anatomically accounted for on each hand. Warm light glows from inside the shop against a cool blue predawn sky, and a plain empty pavement and a closed shop door beside him are unlettered. He wears the white baker's jacket, black apron and white paper cap. The shutter, pole and shopfront carry no lettering, signs or logos.

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