Eli5: why can’t phone cameras catch the colors of sunrise and sunset?

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I’ve noticed that whenever I try to take photos, specially of the sunrise, the colors come out really different from what I’m seeing (pinks and purples turn into orange and green?), It’s not just my current phone either, I feel like no phone actually captures things like this!

It obviously happens with a lot of other things, so I was wondering if there was an explanation!

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Phones calculate exposure to make the frame uniformly well lit. That’s going to significantly overexpose the lit areas, and shift colors when some pixel filters are saturated.

Check out manual exposure control for your phone. You might be able to tap the screen and say “use this point for exposure control”, allowing the dark regions to go dark.

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