
Ezekiel Shaves His Head and Weighs the Hair
A bald, bearded Ezekiel kneels behind a pair of balances with three heaps of hair on a cloth and a small fire beside it.
Prompt
Ezekiel 5: Ezekiel shaves his head and beard with a sharp sword and divides the hair with balances. Ezekiel, a priest in a plain linen robe, kneels large and central in a sunlit courtyard, drawing the edge of a sharp bronze sword along his beard like a barber's razor, with a calm, grieving, determined face; before him on a low stone a pair of bronze hand balances, and three separate small heaps of cut dark hair on a cloth, a small fire burning beside one heap. A warm wind lifts a few strands of hair into the air. Simple mud-brick wall and bright blue sky behind. Style: a blend of photo-realism and cinema, like a still from a big-budget film. Bright, rich, saturated, luminous colour, clear daylight or glowing golden light even in dramatic scenes, never murky or muddy, crisp detail, real human faces full of emotion, shallow depth of field, subtle film grain. Simple, uncluttered composition: ONE clear scene from this chapter, with the chapter's main character or characters large, close and central in the upper and middle frame, and a simple background. No montage, no collage, no inset vignettes, no crowd of small figures competing for attention. Historically accurate ancient Near Eastern clothing, architecture and landscape. Keep the bottom quarter of the frame simple and uncluttered (ground, water or sky) so a large chapter number can be set over it. Absolutely no text, no letters, no words, no numbers, no logos, no watermark, no border, no frame.
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