Eli5: why when you take pictures with your phone (for example, of a beautiful sunset) the colours and proportions don’t look as good as with the human eye?

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Eli5: why when you take pictures with your phone (for example, of a beautiful sunset) the colours and proportions don’t look as good as with the human eye?

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In addition to what others have said, many do a very simple mistake when shooting sunsets. They see this magnificient sunset, and zoom out so they can get as much of the magnificence as possible. That does not work well.

Instead, the next time you are shooting a sunset and want those nice, fat colors, zoom in on it. Don’t get the entire horizon, zoom in close on the sun and it’s immediate surroundings.

That’s how you get those magnificent sunset shots.