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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Answer 1

When you see out of your eyes you are seeing through two lenses and, therefore, in three dimensions: length, width and depth. A camera only has one lens and captures two dimensions: length and width.

The challenge of photography is to convey the idea of three dimensions using two dimensions.