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first things first clean your lens in your pocket and in your hands the camera can pick up smudges and grime so before you shoot a photo make sure to use a 100-percent cotton shirt or microfiber cloth to clean the lens and ensure crisp clean photos capturing photos quickly is important but whenever you can focus on your subject all that takes is a quick tap on the screen and the camera will adjust to make sure the subject is sharp on the iPhone and some androids you can even tap and hold to lock the focus in case you move around and recompose the shot finally don't forget the rule of thirds using the grid in your camera app experiment with placing subjects along the grid lines or on the intersections where the lines meet this means not putting a person or landmark in the middle of the frame which will give your photos more visual appeal for more tips and tricks visit cnet com in San Francisco I'm Sharon Profis cnet.com for CBS News