The Screen Edits You

A camera does not show what a mirror shows. It flattens you into a small rectangle, drops the detail your eye loves, and quietly rewrites your colors.

Three things happen between you and the screen. The lens flattens texture, so a rich weave looks like a plain panel. It exaggerates fine patterns, so a quiet pinstripe can turn busy and restless. And it shifts your colors with whatever lighting and white balance it finds: blush pink fades to grey, navy reads as plain black.