Light and Darkness
I took this with a small pocket Casio. Not too clear, but it serves my purpose of a background for web page. The page has a Christian mission theme, and I wanted to capture the idea of the world being a very dark place, with the light of God’s love just beginning to light the darkne
ss. There is a huge idol in Kurume that’s the same height as the Statue of Liberty and its base combined. It represents the original pagan religion established by Nimrod toward the beginning of the world in defiance of the True God, and as such is a classic symbol of inner darkness, so I took that as the theme.
The actual conditions looked something like this. I liked the reflection of the late afternoon sun in the water. Sometimes its an advantage to have a small pocket camera instead of a big professional model. I’m using a Casio Exelim 7.2, which has a lot of features, including a huge selection of preset style options. I chose “sunset mode” to see what would happen.
Here’s the result I got. Not bad, but I wanted to emphasize the idea, so I moved the shutter speed setting over just a bit to get the darkened effect, then cropped it to bring the idol closer to the center, arriving at the version above. I’m happy with the top photo. The contrast between light and darkness is pronounced, and I have ample black space to add some text. I could use this for a banner or title for the page as well.
Tags: Japan, Kurume, photo lifestyle, photography, sunset
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