@pxlmo @luckytran

Focal length, distance, camera angle, sun angle, aperture width, sensor and lens differences (age, type)

Mainly: looking straight out into miles of smoke is going to look different than looking up or down through it, especially to different cameras

anecdotally, I've noticed my iphone often gets atmospheric color "wrong" - it's color-correcting the image automatically, assuming the unusual ambiance is undesirable