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English Proverb: The camera doesn’t lie
Halloween is over, but I’d still like to scare your socks off today.
We have entered the video era when everyone and their dog is posting videos to Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo and TikTok, among others.
The thing is, though, that the camera doesn’t lie unless, of course, you want it to.
The phrase the camera doesn’t lie comes from a more innocent time when there was no Photoshop or ‘touching up’ a picture was just not done.
Therefore, the idea was that cameras caught things as they were.
They didn’t enhance or hide anything, either.
That was one of the main reasons why people did not enjoy their pictures being taken.
These days, however, it’s a far different story.
Social media is full of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed people looking their best.
The problem tends to be that they look their best all the time.
What about the camera not lying, right?
Well, it will lie if you want it to lie for you.
With all the different lenses available and a little touching up, you can make anyone look good or bad.
We all know this, but we all tend to forget this.
We look at influencers and want to live their lives, but what we are seeing is only a very brief moment in their lives.
It’s a moment that has been planned, prepared for and touched up.
It’s still true that the camera doesn’t lie, but it’s also true that people do.
The bottom line is we should all be happy with ourselves and to hell with what the camera says.
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