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Re:Is My Blue Your Blue? by cubefox on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @05:32AM (#41433022)
Digital cameras also do automatic white balance (between yellow and blue) to mimic the automatic white balance of our eye/brain. If cameras didn't do white balance, outdoor photos with sunlight during noon would look extremely blueish, or indoor photos with artificial light would look extremely yellowish.

I like this illustration of how strong our natural white balance is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress#/media/File%3AWikipe...

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Re:Is My Blue Your Blue? by MereInterest on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @06:52AM (#41433502)
During some heavy dust clouds from nearby wildfires, the sky was a deep and unsettling yellow. However, I couldn’t get a picture of it, because the automatic color balance removed the yellow overcast altogether.
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Re:Is My Blue Your Blue? by cubefox on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @08:24AM (#41434261)
The same problem occurs with photographing the yellow sky when dust from a Sahara sandstorm (presumably coming across the strait of Gibraltar) blows over Europe every few years. But you can set the white balance manually in the camera.
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