- Aperture: f/13
- Camera: NIKON D300
- Made: 29 October, 2009
- Focal length: 18 mm
- ISO: 200
- Shutter speed: 1/25 s
Lemon Salesman
Morocco
The Keeper
Here’s another shoot from the foggy beach in Casablanca – the first one was “The Wanderer” – but besides the man and his horse there where these guys playing soccer, which must have been a bit hard when you really can’t see each other.
- Aperture: f/11
- Camera: NIKON D300
- Made: 1 November, 2009
- Focal length: 200 mm
- ISO: 200
- Shutter speed: 1/400 s
Hard Working Horse, Having a Break
- Aperture: f/6.3
- Camera: NIKON D300
- Made: 27 October, 2009
- Focal length: 120 mm
- ISO: 200
- Shutter speed: 1/100 s
Hi! He’s Looking at You Kid
I was walking around the streets of Marrakesh with My friend Thomas, when we incidentally came by these old movie posters hanging at the front of an even older building. And right away the movie geek in me though, there must be a movie theater behind these walls somewhere.
I found a small gate/door that led in to an alley, where I could see the old ticket booth, I snapped a few photos and all of a sutten this guy came from out of nowhere, it turned out that he was the old film carrier and that he still had access to the theater, which he kindly opened up for us.
As far as I understood – I don’t speak French (or arabic) at all, they have French as a second language in Morocco, because of the colonisation - the cinema was established in 1929 and had been open to the public until 2009, where it was shut down cause of bad circulation.
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It’s a 7 RAW exposures HDR, made with Photomatrix, Photoshop and Topaz Adjust. it’s shoot from the balcony with a 12-24mm lens at 12mm.
A Day for Doing the Laundry Part 2
This might turn in to series, but so far I only got two shoots, and that’s not quiet enough, but hopefully I’ll get some more along the way.
You can find the first one here
- Aperture: f/5.6
- Camera: NIKON D300
- Made: 1 November, 2009
- Focal length: 130 mm
- ISO: 200
- Shutter speed: 1/800 s
The Man from El Fna
- Aperture: f/8
- Camera: NIKON D300
- Made: 27 October, 2009
- Focal length: 200 mm
- ISO: 200
- Shutter speed: 1/320 s
In the Shadow of Light
I have for a while now wanted to up the antes, and post a new photo everyday, the only thing stopping me, is “all” the text, cause when English isn’t your mother thong it takes some time to write a new post, with all the spell checking and so on. Well at least it does for me.
So I decided that not all new posts needs text….and starting from this day on, I’ll post a new photo every day and write something if I feel like I have something to say (and have the time to write it).
As some wise dude once said “if you don’t have anything wise or nice to say, it’s better to say nothing at all”
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Post process wise on this one, is all Lightroom, and only small adjustments, I added some contrast and a bit of cropping.
- Aperture: f/5.6
- Camera: NIKON D300
- Made: 29 October, 2009
- Focal length: 200 mm
- ISO: 200
- Shutter speed: 1/500 s
A Day for Doing the Laundry
Are you photo blogging – and using WordPress or the Blogger blog site – then I just found a Lightroom plugin that might come in handy at “Photographer’s Toolbox” it’s the “LR/Blog” plugin, which allows you to export your photos directly to your blog, it’s really neat. And for a small donation to the developer, you can export images above 300 x 300 pi, it is well worth it.
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I did all the post processing – once again – with Lightroom, I color corrected the photo, added a small vignette to get more focus on the woman, and I did a slight crop.
- Aperture: f/5.6
- Camera: NIKON D300
- Made: 1 November, 2009
- Focal length: 200 mm
- ISO: 800
- Shutter speed: 1/1000 s
From a Dream…..Maybe
I had a one week holiday in Morocco with a good friend, at the end of October 2009, we spent most of the time in Marakesch where we stayed in a Riad in the middle of the old medina, an amazing place, and as always I shoot a lot photos, and the old medina has plenty to offer, photographically, it’s a very photogenic area.
This photo is from one of our last days in the city, where I let myself get lost in the smaller streets, that for some reason always end blindly, which forced me to walk the same way back as I came, but seen through a photographer’s eye it’s quiet ok, cause you get the opportunity to see street/area from another angle and you may be getting back to that place you didn’t get a photo the first time you walked by.
The photo is color adjusted and had some contrast added in Photoshop, I also added a little glow effect to the highlights to get a more dreamy feel to the photo.
- Aperture: f/5
- Camera: NIKON D300
- Made: 28 October, 2009
- Focal length: 12 mm
- ISO: 400
- Shutter speed: 1/125 s
Countryside
I was on the train from Marakesh to Casablanca, the trip takes around 3 hours, in order to kill some time I went out of the train compartment and in to the corridor to shoot a few photos out the window, I was pretty sure that I wouldn’t get anything good, but I didn’t have anything else to do, and it was kind of fun standing there taking pictures of the bypassing landscapes, but I also felt a little sad that I wasn’t drive the distance in a car, in order to be able to stop at all the beautiful places we where passing, but then again, in that case the trip would have be twice as long.
I haven’t done that much to this photo in post, I added some contrast and color, and cloned away some some dirt from the window I was shooting through.
- Aperture: f/5.6
- Camera: NIKON D300
- Made: 31 October, 2009
- Focal length: 27 mm
- ISO: 400
- Shutter speed: 1/1000 s
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