I know..I know...yet another blog post from my Morocco trip in April! There were so many unique photo opportunities from this country that they lead to a wide variety of images that deserve their own post. In this post, I am sharing with you some of my favorite portraits taken within the Ait Ben Haddou, a Kasbah located in the Ouarzazate Province of Morocco.
This is a photo of the Kasbah from a distance. When we arrived at this location, I figured that I would be taking photos of the building and landscape, but our guide had something else in mind for us.
As we entered the historic fortified village, we saw this woman. Our guide helped me place her by this window to beautiful portrait light on her face. I was using my
Canon R5 Mark II camera with the
RF 24-105mm f/4 lens for this photo and all the images in this blog post.
We found another subject and another window opening to create this portrait. For many of the portraits, I could not decide whether they should be color or B&W, so I created two versions of each in Photoshop. I am curious to hear from you all, as to which you like best.
We entered into a small dark room, and the only light source was coming from the ceiling above. I asked this man to look up into the light and captured this.
Once I was done photographing this gentleman, we walked back towards the entrance of the Kasbah. When we entered the village, we saw a couple of camels and I really wanted to photograph them. Ali, our guide, told me that we would have a better opportunity for photos in the next hour or so. He was definitely right!
We had the camels and their keeper to ourselves for portraits, and it was awesome. I was able to position them at the entrance to the Kasbah, in perfect late afternoon sunlight. I shot some images tight...
...and some a little wider.
After showing him some of the images on the back of the camera, he loved them, and smiled for this shot.
I saw that the sun was hitting the wall to my right, and asked him to lean against that wall of this shot. One of my favorites from the trip!
Even Laura and I got into a photo with him.
He and his camels were such great models
I loved the previous shot with him against the wall so much, that I took some more. This time with slightly more light on the camels.
I wanted to get some photos of him and the camels with the Kasbah in the background. We tried a couple of different locations, but this was my favorite, and what a great pose for him and the camels.
I took a couple more portraits in the late afternoon light...
...this was the last one, before we walked back towards our vehicle.
Once we walked back up the stairs, I saw this view of the Kasbah and loved all the tagine pots that were in the foreground. I am always looking for interesting leading lines and unique photos, and thought that this was a good one.
One more Morocco blog to come!
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