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ideas for a better picture Anonymous
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i am an aspiring photographer, love taking pictures, yadda yadda yadda. i took this picture on a cold morning in january at about 6:45 in the morning. it isn't photoshopped at all, i have done nothing to it other than resizing. any ideas on some effects i could do to it to make it better?
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>> Anonymous
you can't by photoshopping it
You need to just take better pictures, Its not an easy process, But start by looking at everything thats going to be in the picture, For example The tree on the left is not bad too look at, but the Streetlamp, and telephone wires and fence and tree on the right are distracting, So move around untill all you see in the picture is what looks good (the sky and the one tree)

If you could have moved up closer you could have gotten the horizon line at the bottom of the picture, And shifted so the street light wasn't in it. Power lines still would be, and so would the one tree, but nothing else would.