[CompSci87]

I have never seen anything like it. For those who shoot the exposure is at T2 at 250ASA. Unprecedented. Dark. The light is orange. Fog is trapping the smoke. I Phones and I Pads are color correcting and don't reveal the true color. We are in the seventeenth day of an evacuation order but the wonderful Federal/Marin County team backburned the last troubling forest undergrowth yesterday. We are very lucky. The gigantic fire north of us kicked up near Windsor and along the Russian River overnight. More evacs. And now a fire is barreling at Medford Oregon running right alongside I5. Most of Medford under an evacuation order. No doubt the worst year since 1861.

It is indeed strange.  No camera or camera phone I have can correctly capture the color and mood.  It is really odd and surreal.  Street lights on and everyone driving with their car lights on here in the far northern reaches of Coastal California.

Instant expertise via googling (obviously much less than what Phogge knows on the subject!):

Most phone camera software has auto white balance. Your phone's camera app, or a third party camera app, may have a pro mode where you can set the color temperature manually. I googled and found a statement that 5200K is similar to old fashioned "daylight" film. However, for me, just setting that on my camera app made the scene *too* sepia, while the sky still was too white, compared with how things looked to my eye. Maybe I needed manual exposure too.

[CompSci87]

I have never seen anything like it. For those who shoot the exposure is at T2 at 250ASA. Unprecedented. Dark. The light is orange. Fog is trapping the smoke. I Phones and I Pads are color correcting and don't reveal the true color. We are in the seventeenth day of an evacuation order but the wonderful Federal/Marin County team backburned the last troubling forest undergrowth yesterday. We are very lucky. The gigantic fire north of us kicked up near Windsor and along the Russian River overnight. More evacs. And now a fire is barreling at Medford Oregon running right alongside I5. Most of Medford under an evacuation order. No doubt the worst year since 1861.

It is indeed strange.  No camera or camera phone I have can correctly capture the color and mood.  It is really odd and surreal.  Street lights on and everyone driving with their car lights on here in the far northern reaches of Coastal California.

Instant expertise via googling (obviously much less than what Phogge knows on the subject!):

Most phone camera software has auto white balance. Your phone's camera app, or a third party camera app, may have a pro mode where you can set the color temperature manually. I googled and found a statement that 5200K is similar to old fashioned "daylight" film. However, for me, just setting that on my camera app made the scene *too* sepia, while the sky still was too white, compared with how things looked to my eye. Maybe I needed manual exposure too.