On either phone, Banff looks beautiful. Antonio Villas-Boas/Business Insider

I'm not sure what possessed me, but I took two smartphones with me during a hiking trip to Banff, Canada, one of the most beautiful places in the world.

Those phones were the OnePlus 7 Pro and the Google Pixel 3 XL.

I documented the trip by taking photos with each phone at the same times and places so I could definitively tell which smartphone had the best camera.

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On a recent hiking trip to Banff, Canada - one of the most beautiful places in the world - I decided to bring along two of the best smartphone cameras: the OnePlus 7 Pro, and Google's Pixel 3 XL.

While I took photos with each phone at the same time and place, the OnePlus 7 Pro simply didn't deliver the types of photos I was looking for, as it was seemingly trying too hard to make photos pop by overly processing them.

It's pretty clear that the Pixel 3 XL took better photos, but it wasn't so clear when I tried the previous OnePlus 6T against the Pixel 3 XL during a different trip to Hawaii.

For reference, the OnePlus 7 Pro photos were taken with the 9.5.7 update, when OnePlus had supposedly fixed the earlier issues with the camera.

Check out the photos below to see what I mean when I say that the OnePlus 7 Pro was trying too hard to take good photos.