See this:
Shot on my phone (Samsung Note 9) from the window of an A380 over Los Angeles. Straight out of camera*, rotated by a degree or two to straighten the horizon.
That's just what colour it was.
Not that it matters. Photography - unless you're photographing a crime scene - is not just or even often about making a one-for-one visual copy of what's in front of you. It's about capturing the totality of the situation, and that means encapsulating - in a bunch of pixels - not just everything you could see, but also everything else - the heat, the sounds, the smells, the feeling of the ground under your feet.
Also, the human eye and the AI attached to it (in your brainmeats) processes images in a way that effectively gives us huge visual dynamic range when viewing things in person. To represent that in a rectangle of static pixels requires some manipulation.
Shot on my phone (Samsung Note 9) from the window of an A380 over Los Angeles. Straight out of camera*, rotated by a degree or two to straighten the horizon.
That's just what colour it was.
Not that it matters. Photography - unless you're photographing a crime scene - is not just or even often about making a one-for-one visual copy of what's in front of you. It's about capturing the totality of the situation, and that means encapsulating - in a bunch of pixels - not just everything you could see, but also everything else - the heat, the sounds, the smells, the feeling of the ground under your feet.
Also, the human eye and the AI attached to it (in your brainmeats) processes images in a way that effectively gives us huge visual dynamic range when viewing things in person. To represent that in a rectangle of static pixels requires some manipulation.