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Camera wont show the red in the sky

I have an A52 but no category for that. I get lovely sunrises with lots of red in sky but through lens of camera as well as the picture result, shows golden. Really like to capture the red in the sky.

Went into settings - Display and set to LIGHT and VIVID. White Balance set at full on to WARM. Max for R and G and half way for B. Adaptive Brightness is on. Brightness set at 50%.
Any suggestions really welcome. Not hugely tech minded but can do OK with tips .
 
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Went into settings - Display and set to LIGHT and VIVID. White Balance set at full on to WARM. Max for R and G and half way for B. Adaptive Brightness is on. Brightness set at 50%.
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So what you're doing is apparently going into your A52's Settings menu and changing Display options but it's important you keep in mind that this affects your phone's screen. Or in other words, the changes you make affect how everything appears to you on your phone so this may change how your pictures appear but it also involves everything you do on your phone. You're changing the phone's display properties but not correcting the actual photo files themselves (the former can always be changed back again, just re-do what options you changed, the latter will be more involved.)
I'd recommend to instead look into do some color correcting to either a) tweaking your Camera app to make changes in how your resulting photos appear and/or b) use a good, fully extensive photo editor app on your phone or application on a computer. This way, your photos themselves will show more of those reds whether you're viewing them on your phone, or on a different mobile device, or on a computer, or when you send them out to friends and family. When you just try to make the phone's screen different, the photos will look different too, but that's just when you're using your phone. If instead make your photos look different, that makes your photos look that way no matter they're being viewed.

If you do want to optimize your phone's Camera app, use the Settings menu in the Camera app (... just to differentiate that's your Camera app's Settings menu, not your phone's Settings menu. The former will only affect the Camera app, the latter affects your phone's display)
https://downloadcenter.samsung.com/...01083/SAM_A526_EN_UM_OS12_041322_FINAL_AC.pdf
(see pg. 46)
Skip using the preset Modes, those are each set up to meet specific criteria for specific situations that aren't necessarily going to apply to something like bringing up the 'red' tones. Select the 'Pro' mode where all the camera options are at their defaults and it's all on you to manually tweak what options to alter and how much or leave as is. Spend a lot of time experimenting and take lots of test shots to get more familiar with that changes what. A lot of things will require a balancing act on your part -- i.e. if you change the aperture to boost lighter areas that may make the darker ones too light or too muddy.
It's not going to an easy task to make those pictures you take to capture those same images you see out in the horizon. There's a fundamental difference between how a smartphone camera sensor captures photo images and how our eyeballs take in what we see.
 
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