IMPROVING COMPOSITION

Normally, once a photograph bas been taken, very little can be easily done to improve its composition, other than cropping. People and objects in the background are usually there to stay. However, with digital imaging, this is not so. Take the example below, an ordinary photograph of a horsemanship instructor helping out a student with a difficult pony. There are several distracting elements in this photo: * A person standing on the left, * A person in the backgound between the pony and instructor, * A barrel on the ground, * Another horse's rump on the right side, * A streak of sunlight on the horse's neck When all of the distracting elements are removed, and the photograph is then cropped and enlarged, it dramatically improves the composition, turning an average photo into a great one!