Photography tips: Level out your composition.

When composing shots keep an eye on vertical and horizontal lines. It might be a picture on the wall or some steps, but some elements work best when viewed level. With software like Adobe Lightroom you can easily rotate images to fix angled shots, or you can even purchase a hotshoe mount spirit-level, but for handheld camera work I always use a much quicker method that's included with every picture you take: When you look through your viewfinder simply use your focus points matrix to level up against a straight line in a scene. I took the above shots as an example of vertical and horizontal alignment using the focus points in the 5DMk2 viewfinder.

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