Mandy Vien
January 2025 - Hassan II mosque
About the Image(s)
Looking out at the Hassan II mosque from the arc. Completed in 1993, Hassan II
mosque is a large mosque at Casablanca Morocco. Looking out to the Atlantic
ocean, this mosque is the second large mosque in Africa with the second tallest
minaret of 210 meters. It can accommodate up to 105000 worshippers.
R5, 15-35mm @15mm
ISO: 100
1/400 sec at f/10
3 comments posted
Nice image. The colors are crisp and apparently you captured the apparent position of the sun in the sky as on the left as opposed to the darker right. Your framing of the mosque in the arches of another structure adds to the impressive image. It appears you used a relatively wide-angle lens to capture this and I'm wondering if you shot the image hand-held or shot up from a lower angle to get it. Was there any way you could have gotten the top of your framing arches in your image?
BTW, Happy New Year. Posted: 01/01/2025 05:14:25
BTW, Happy New Year. Posted: 01/01/2025 05:14:25
Hi Alan, Happy New Year to you too.
The image was shot at a low angle with the widest of the lens. This is the only arc which can frame the mosque in the middle. With 15mm, and limited space under the passage, I can not have the whole arch in the shot. To not attract attention, a few of us set our cameras on tripods with the mosque in the frame, and wait the wait for interesting/colorful subjects. If I was the only photographer, I may be able to get the whole arch as the frame.
Posted: 01/01/2025 23:49:22
The image was shot at a low angle with the widest of the lens. This is the only arc which can frame the mosque in the middle. With 15mm, and limited space under the passage, I can not have the whole arch in the shot. To not attract attention, a few of us set our cameras on tripods with the mosque in the frame, and wait the wait for interesting/colorful subjects. If I was the only photographer, I may be able to get the whole arch as the frame.
Posted: 01/01/2025 23:49:22
I thought so. that's the problem with wide-angle lenses at relatively shallow depth-of-field ( at least as far as the lens is concerned). Under those circumstances it's a good shot. Posted: 01/02/2025 05:44:42