Rich475 Loc: North of San Francsico

The smoke from the wild fires in Northern California blew south during the night and this is what the sun looked like at 7:00 this morning. The interesting phenomena was when I took the photo the sun was blood red like the reflection in the water with the naked eye. The sensor somehow burned out the red and the photo of the sun was reddish yellow . . . I was disappointed when I downloaded the photos and the blood red was missing. The second photo's reflection shows more red. Are the any astro physicist out there who knows why?

twowindsbear

Ya overexposed the sun.

That's my WAG.

photoman022 Loc: Manchester CT USA

I'm not an expert, but I read (somewhere) that cameras will invariably photograph the sun as a white ball. I forget the reason why. I read up on it because I photographed a beautiful sunrise on the Atlantic Ocean while in Maine. The photos before the sunrise had the beautiful reds and blues in the sky and the reflecting ocean; the Sun, when it finally arrived, was a beautiful orange, in the sky and on the ocean! -- but that's not how the camera sensor caught it: it was a white ball (with the reflection just a wavy, white ball). When I photographed to the left and the right of the Sun, I had beautiful colors. The beautiful colors were there when I photographed the sun head on, but they were around the periphery, not in the sun (and its reflection) itself.

Rich475 Loc: North of San Francsico

I know that the visible light rays range between ultra violet and inferred but I'm asking why the sensor sees something different that the eye.
Thanks for your response photoman.

ppkwhat Loc: Gibsonton, FL

I would think that's due to the predominant ultraviolet morning light as opposed to the infrared that dominates the afternoon / evening light present. I may be wrong but.....