release the button, please!

originally adapted from shutter speed love by jacky ignatius



good day people,

so you must think I am a love-freak. No. In fact, I'm a bit sceptical with this so-called love. But people, I want to share this very interesting thought.

You know camera right? I doesn't matter whether your camera is SLR or pocket one, it must have one button that you must push when you want to take some pictures, called shutter release button. This probably one of the most important part from camera. This button will open the case between lens and roll film. After the case opened, lights coming from lens will get through body of camera to film, then the film will 'record' the picture. The same case for digital camera, with different media. But as I told before, every camera has shutter release button.

In camera pocket, the shutter speed (how long the case will open and shut itself) and diagfragma (how big the lens will open) are already costumized for instant reason. But in SLR, we can decide the shutter speed and diagfragma. We can open the shutter release button for 1/2000 second, or even hold the shutter release button as long as we want (called bulb).

Shutter speed and diagfragma are used to manage the quantity of light coming through film, so the picture will be nice, not too dark or not too bright. Well, if you have difficulties in understanding how to use camera, just refer it to how your eyes work. Imagine that the pupil is lens, and your retina is the film. The pupil will be getting bigger or smaller, adjust the amount of lights. It will bigger in dark place, so our eyes will receive more light. And in other side, will be smaller in bright place. Imagine that shutter speed is how fast we shut our eyes. The longer we open our eyes, the more light we received, the more movement we will get.

Ehm, if you are interested more in how it works, you can ask me, off the record. Back to the topic please.

Anyway, the mechanic way of camera is not only same as eye, in my opinion. But it also resembles the work of our heart. The way we feel something or how much we feel it depends on how much we open our heart, same as shutter release button. Are we going to set our shutter speed in 1/4000 to feel love, affection, joyful? Or bulbing in 3 hours for grudge, envy, despair?

No matter how much the feeling that other people give to us, it depends to ourself whether we feel it as much as they feel or less, or even more. The empathetic person, will much probably bulbs their heart to feel more. But an apathetic person like me, maybe just open the heart for 1/500 second.

It also depends of how sensitive a person to feel something. And how big they open their heart. But basically, it depends on the person itself.

Oh yes, before i forgot. My suggestion, doesn't matter how big we open it. we have to open our heart in healthy portion. why I say it 'healthy'? it's very important. Same as film, if it received too small mount of lights, it will appear darker, called under exposure. In contrary, if a film receive too much lights the picture will appear brighter than the real object. It won't give true image of the object, called over exposure. or even worse, it will burn the film.

Then if you open your heart too small and too fast, you will receive a dark image. You won't get the real fact. But if you open it too much, it will burn your 'film', it will kill you slowly. and it's very unhealthy.

So people, how much do you open your heart for this world?