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Why your phone camera can’t capture the sky right now.
If you’re taking pictures of today’s apocalyptic fire-tinted sky on the US East Coast, you might notice the colors are far more normal than the ones your eyes see. Ian Bogost wrote a deep dive on what that means back in 2020:
The un-oranged images were caused by one of the most basic features of digital cameras, their ability to infer what color is in an image based on the lighting conditions in which it is taken. Like the people looking up at it, the software never expected the sky to be bathed in orange.
Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse
[The Atlantic]
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