We all strive to produce photos that are perfect right out of the camera. Unfortunately, sometimes what comes out of the camera doesn't quite match what we envisioned when we pressed the shutter button. Here are some easy things you can do to improve your photos after the fact.
STEP 1: Crop The Image
It's best to get the framing right in...
Through the viewfinder David X. Tejada saw Bart Simpson strangling Saddam Hussein.
"It was at the time of the first Gulf War, and I was shooting at a mining site in Nevada," David says. "I've got a 300mm lens on the camera, and I'm directing a surveyor out in the field by walkie-talkie. I'm having him look through his surveying scope.
Lynne Eodice is an accomplished writer/photographer and a regular contributor to Photographic magazine.
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