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. At a long workbench in even light a broad sturdy Sikh man in his early forties with medium-brown skin, a full black beard greying at the chin and a plain navy turban holds a small unglazed bowl up in both hands to show a woman in her mid twenties with light brown skin, a short black bob with a fringe and a small gold nostril stud the thickness of its base, turning it so she can see underneath, while the apprentice leans forward with a wire tool and a sponge in her hands taking in his lesson, a row of other unglazed bowls drying on a board behind them, seen from the side at eye level and framed from the thighs up. Each hand has four fingers and a thumb, exactly five digits visible or anatomically accounted for on each hand. The potter teacher wears a grey linen apron over a white t-shirt and the apprentice wears a charcoal apron over a cream sweater. No readable words, numbers, logos or brand marks appear on any pot, shelf, label or clothing.
