Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Photos - What do they mean?

Nowadays, photos are widely used in Social media. To show how you look, what you do, what you eat and sometimes even how you feel. But, what do you think is the real purpose of photos? Some say they show happiness. Some say they are remembrance for those lovely moments they had. Some even say photos change things. Yeah maybe.


But, what photos really do according to me..they smile. They smile a little bit with that lips of yours going a little wide. And they go on smiling big, smiling with mouth open, smiling with wink of the eyes, smiling with tongues out, smiling with blush and it goes on to whatever kind of smile you can come up with. Those smiles remind you of the gravity of great moments you had then. Photos never cry unless you want them to be. Let’s not do that 


I can’t exactly say why I love photos that much. I just Love photos. There is a great joy in posing for photos and also in capturing photos. It depends on the people. People who want to pose just want to enjoy that moment and preserve it for future. People who Love to capture photos want to see others smile and enjoy that moment of people posing themselves crazily.


There are some people who love photos extremely. They keep on posing. Oh God! How could they come up with different poses in a split second? They then go on applying filters to it and finally comes the DP (The best part is this process repeats at least once a day with a rate of 1 DP a day). And the more interesting and creative thing is they somehow come up with a status which is in sync with their pic :P. I am not saying it’s weird or wrong. I just wanted to say it’s crazy and it’s good to be crazy 


Me. I love capturing photos than posing for it. I love that shy moment when people ask me to open the lens cap before taking photos. I Love that moment when my friend and me spend the whole night taking DPs for him. I love that moment when I open the lens cap and see that light coming through the lens. I love that moment when people fight playfully to showcase themselves attractive in the photos. I love that moment when I blur in and blur out to adjust the focus. I love that when people keep on asking me to send photos to them. And finally, I love that moment when I actually took a good looking photo :D


One of my friends keeps on asking me always ‘When you are going to give me a good DP?’ He was insisting that I should edit my photos. But, I don’t like my photos edited. I love them as they are. Dark or Light. Let them be. If it’s dark, then it’s because of the night..so let’s try enjoying the calm night prevailing in that photo. If it’s very much exposed to sun..let’s try enjoying the beauty of Sunlight in that photo. Let it be I would say.


Photos are really a remembrance of good times. On a lonely night with no one to blabber to, I would just keep scrolling my gallery. That’s when I would find that one tall guy who always takes selfies. That one person who always wide opens his/her mouth for every single photo. That one person who always positions him/her in center of the frame to get the attraction. That one person who always poses kind of cute with barring teeths..eeee. That one person who always stands behind calmly with just a smile. That one person who always stands as if he/she is not interested and looks away. That one unlucky person who always wants to give a good pose but never let by his/her friends to come front. So, he/she always end up with only part of their face visible from back. That two persons who always stand together for every photo. That group of friends who always comes up with weird and crazy poses. That big group of friends who fall on each other while trying to get a place for themselves. That big group of friends who doesn’t smile unless or until the photographer says so. And finally that one person who always gives a weird sound (cheese/heeeeeee/aaaaaahhhh) to make everyone laugh when they take a group pic. After finding all these, I would start laughing at myself as I happen to find me in one of those personalities mentioned above (the one who wide opens mouth for every photo :D)


Speaking of remembrance of good times, but do they change things? Yeah I think so. Looking at my school friend in group photo makes me remember the mischiefs we did. Lunches we had. Classes we bunked. Girls we loved (not together though :P). Birthday parties we celebrated. Movies we watched. And then I go on calling him after many years to get in touch. Looking at my graduation day photo reminds me of how good my friend was to me and how bad it is not to speak with him. And then I go on calling him to reconcile. Looking at my adventure trip photo reminds me of a hot tea we had that morning and consequently the friend whom I had it with. And then I go on calling him to talk about how great that trip and tea were and how we should do that again. Yeah, photos do change things 


Posing for photos is cool. But, I personally think photos should be taken when you are yourself casually. Not ones you pose deliberately for. Photos shouldn’t be taken they should be captured, I would say. They should just capture that moment unknowingly when you blush, smile, laugh, talk, fight, yawn, walk, run, eat, drink, blink, smell, dance, sing, propose, break up, feel etc. It’s because when you look at that photo later, you will get that same feel back with goosebumps. (This applies only when I take photos and not when I pose :D)

I don’t think there are any eligibility criteria to take photos. It’s because there is no such thing called a bad photo. A dark photo with nothing but black may look bad for many but good for some as they may see it a black door which will give light when opened. Just don’t care how the output will be. Just click that little button with your right thumb and that could be your shortest route to heaven. And who knows someday you will share us some photos of heaven 

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