In the photo tour to Kenya, I brought my group to a Masai village to photograph people in their native environment. It's a chance to do some striking portraits, but we were there when the sun was fairly high in the sky (we didn't want to sacrifice a game drive so we visited the village in the middle afternoon). The sun was a problem because harsh contrast rarely looks good with outdoor portraits. For this shot, I chose a young man who was wearing a lion headdress and placed him in the only shade I could find -- against the side of one of the homes with a mud wall as a backdrop. A narrow overhang blocked the sun, and that's all I needed to take advantage of the small amount of diffused light. I used a 24-105mm lens on a Canon 5D Mark III, and the settings were 1/160, f/8, 250 ISO, hand held.
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