Generally speaking, what you see is not what you are looking at. We as humans do our own color correction all the time, so it’s natural that a camera would do t

Generally speaking, what you see is not what you are looking at. We as humans do our own color correction all the time, so it’s natural that a camera would do the same. Otherwise, you end up with photos that look e.g. very green when you weren’t expecting it, because your eyes had adapted to the ambient colors.