Nikon D3, 17mm, 1/80, F/13, ISO 900
You might wonder why it’s called the blue mosque since it’s not blue. If you go inside you will figure it out. The walls are decorated with blue tiles. Actually I didn’t really get that “wow, it’s blue!”-feeling when I entered the mosque. More a “that’s a really red carpet”-feeling. The mosque is lit sometimes with blue lights though but not when I was there.
I didn’t have my tripod at this time. I wasn’t at all prepared for this nice sunlight on just the top of the mosque. But I only needed to raise the ISO to 900 to get a fast enough shutter-speed (1/80) which again is maybe a bit unnecessary fast at this focal length and I set the aperture to f/13 to get everything sharp. I like the composition in this one. Framing the main subject with another subject within the frame of the image is a well tried out formula that almost always works.
Not much to say about post-processing on this image. I set the tone curve to strong contrast and I lowered the exposure just a bit (-0.25) to get more details in the sun lit part of the mosque.
