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How to Crop Photos to Improve Composition


One of the easiest ways to give your photographs some added punch and to remove unwanted clutter is to use the crop tool to zoom in on the important element you want to emphasise.

Its not unusual for a composition to include some unwanted items around its edges, and therefore a simple crop can easily rid your image of these blemishes.


Written on Oct 31st, 2008 by Dave Adams

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Mastering Firework Photography

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Firework photography tips. How to photograph spectacular buit tricky to shoot firework displays.

  • Level:Beginner to Intermediate
  • Tools:DSLR Camera & Tripod
  • Time:N/A


Here in the UK its coming upto bonfire night (5th November) which means plenty of opportunity to take some photographs of the spectacular firework displays that go hand in hand with these events.

The problem is, photographing fireworks isn’t as straight forward and easy as you’d hope. There are a number of issue to contend with - its dark, the speed the fireworks go off, and the inability to focus on a dark sky all mean that without careful preparation and planning, you may end up with no photographs at all.

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This article about mastering firework photography will hopefully help and guide you through some of the best tips to making bonfire night a photographic night to remember.

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