Laughter by the Shoreline

Create one vertical 9:16 image: a candid phone photo of the woman in the attached photo at the edge of the sea at dusk, taken by a friend standing on the dry sand.

Identity first. She is the same person as in the attached photo: keep her facial structure, eyes, brows, nose, lips, jaw, skin tone, age and natural asymmetry. Her hair is open and the sea breeze is moving it. Take only who she is from that photo; its pose, clothes, expression and light do not carry over.

The moment. She is backing out of the water, sandals hanging from one hand below the frame, when another wave catches her ankles. She is caught mid-laugh, head tilted down and a little to one side, eyes on the water rushing round her feet, not on the lens. Her free hand is at her temple, holding her hair back from the wind. Her shoulders are turned slightly away, weight on her back foot.

She wears a white ribbed fitted T-shirt under an oversized blue-striped shirt left open, and loose beige linen trousers rolled twice.

Framed from the waist up, her face large in the upper-middle and a little left of centre, the horizon slightly tilted.

Light. Blue hour: deep blue sky with a last warm band at the horizon behind her. Her face is lit softly from the front by the warm bulbs of the beach stalls behind the camera, so every feature reads, while the cool sky outlines her hair and the open shirt. The surf behind her is pale and slightly blurred.

A real phone photograph in low light: natural skin texture, visible grain, no retouching. One main person; no readable text, letters or logos anywhere.