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whether you use a phone or a DSLR there are going to be times when you make mistakes with your photography especially when you're starting out here are the top three mistakes the beginners make and how to fix them first up is getting your horizon crooked this is a very easy fix in your smartphone all you need to do is turn on at the grid overlay option before you take the photo for iPhone head to settings then photos and camera and toggle the grid switch on Android it's pretty similar but depending on your phone you'll need to go into the settings menu and turn on the grid icon if you have a DSLR though it is a similar process you can either turn on the grid lines or if your DSLR has it a virtual horizon options so you can have an overlay of the horizon in real time when you're using live view otherwise if you want to do it in post-processing simply open up your favorite app and then tilt the canvas until everything is straight the second mistake that a lot of photographers make when they're first starting out is the photos appear either too bright or too dark this is because sometimes your camera meter can't read the light like your icon and either under or over exposes for the situation now fortunately there is a really easy fix all you have to do is look for the exposure compensation slider in your phone app on iphone all you need to do is press and hold the screen a box will come up and then toggle the slider up and down on Android just simply look for the exposure slider and change the value to either a positive one if you want to make the photo brighter or to a negative one if you want to make it darker on a DSLR the same principle applies just look for the exposure compensation button and to make your adjustments mistake number three is white balance do your photos sometimes have weird color casts then your white balance is probably wrong fortunately it's a really simple fix in your phone's camera app all you need to do is look for a white balance option and then set it to a more appropriate value or alternatively if you have a DSLR you can actually take a student white balance reading all you need for this is to grab a white card or a gray card take a photo of it in the same lighting condition as your subject and then look for a custom white balance option in your DSLR menu select that photo of the white card that you took and then you'll have the correct white balance for the situation or of course you can always change the white balance in post-production those are some simple solutions for problems that beginner photographers often make if you want to check out the full list you can find it on cnet.com / hi you