Why are colors in photos inaccurate?

[Android Central Question]

I have an LG X Charge. Deep reds and orange of a sunset look pink. Other colors come out wrong also. I can edit the photo to correct the color, almost perfect, but I don't want to do this all the time. Any suggestions?

 

[ManiacJoe]

Without seeing an example photo with all its EXIF data included, the most likely problem is that the "auto" setting of your camera is doing an auto white balance that is trying to make the sky blue.

If that is the case, a fix is to put the camera app into manual exposure mode and change the white balance setting to "daylight" or something near 5600.

 

[Rukbat]

Or experiment with the setting until the picture on the screen shows the same color for something in the red family as the same color as the object. (It's too bad we can't lock the white balance, or a grey card would make it easy.)

 

[L0n3N1nja]

Do the images look the wrong color on another display? They might look bad because the display is off color.

Otherwise as already mentioned the camera is probably auto adjusting the white balance poorly.

 

[haberpth]

I did as you suggested and it worked. Thank you so much.