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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A lot of good replies adding bits of the answer. But also:
When you look at a sunset you are experiencing reality including the heat from the sun on your skin, the tightening of your iris from the intensity of the sunlight, the smell of the air, the breeze in your hair. The sounds of the birds, traffic, your friends… You are not looking at a picture, it’s the actual thing!
Also it moves. A picture doesn’t.