On one of the many trips to Europe I took this shot in Italy of an old
Roman ruin. This one structure
(which I titled “Who Is Around The Corner In History”) caught my eye in not
only it’s massive size and even after close to 2,000 years its detail and
color, but also because of the way light reflected at every angle. One side was in shadow and the other in a
reflected defused light. The men on the
left seemed to be looking (or about to glance) at the men on the right who were
in the shadows. It reminded me of the
nature of the world… those in the light trying to peek at those who live in the
dark and yet that narrow edge that separated them kept them from crossing over
into each others world. The divide
between good and evil, right and wrong, vision and despair. Just so many aspects of life can be seen in
this one scene and above it were masses of color deflecting the scars on the
faces of the statues. So much joy, yet
so much pain all at the same time.
But I wander a bit by being philosophical on what the photo
meant to me. This photo was shot with just a
cheap old point and shoot camera that I always had with me on that trip (when I didn’t
want to drag along the big DSLR). I
shot it with an Olympus Optical C4100Z with an F stop of 2.8, focal length of
10.7 mm and an exposure time of 1/320 of a second. I was about 15 feet away from the center of
this statue area with the light to my back.
No flash was used as the lighting was good enough to capture the
mood. See, even a basic point and shoot
digital camera works (and that camera only had a 4.0 max mega pixel
capability). Just proves that you just
shoot with what you have sometimes you are given a good photo.
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