How to make your shoddy vacation photos look great

by CNNGo staff

There's plenty of advice going around on how to take stunning photos. And yet you still can't get it right.

Check out these tips on how to salvage those less-than-perfect shots to turn them into the outtakes that could.

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You can rave and rave about that unexpectedly perfect meal at the little Italian place you just happened to stumble upon and which isn't in any guidebook. But the photos probably won't do it justice.

The main problem with food photos, especially for dinners, is the lighting inside restaurants. During the day, you can use the natural light coming in from a window to illuminate your image, but at night you won't have that advantage.