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making the grade: geographical skills

Using photos as evidence in your NEA

Getting the picture right

Photographs can provide useful evidence and qualitative data for your NEA. David Holmes and Carrie Bristow explain how to make sure they are doing the job

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This is the first of two Geographical Skills columns that looks at how to use photos in your NEA. It shows how to take suitable photos to illustrate your work. In the next issue this column will discuss how to present images, including how to annotate, geolocate, interpret and analyse them.

There is some skill involved in taking photographs that are attractive, informative and geographical. Composition and framing are both about what you include (or do not include) in a picture and how you position the shot to give it maximum impact, based on what you are trying to show.

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