Avoid Visual Clutter in Your Photographs

Chelle Chevelle
3 min readAug 5, 2023

Phone poles, power lines, and other urban eyesores create visual clutter in an image, spoiling the composition. But you don’t have to surrender to these unseemly saboteurs. Here are five tips to help you avoid, or at least mitigate their (unwanted) presence:

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1. Change your vantage point.

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Chelle Chevelle

Not Chevy Chase. BA in Theatre from ASU. Film and photography enthusiast. See her photos at flickr.com/photos/womansworkproductionco/