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Bob Rejefski started taking pictures in the early '70s, with 35mm color slides.

"There was very little you could do afterward to change a slide, so you had to be careful and deliberate when taking the photo," he said. "Other than things like montages and multiple exposures – you got the photo you took."

He said it's a treat for him to have the ability to enhance or fix photos digitally.

Rejefski captured this sunset above the West River in Brattleboro, Vt., on the first night of a trip to New England last fall with his Canon G15.

He remembers being joined by a dozen other photographers spread out on the bridge where this photo was taken, and below at the marina.

"We spent as much time looking at each other and saying 'Wow!' as we did snapping pictures," he said. "It would have been hard to take a bad photo of it."

When photographing sunrises and sunsets, Rejefski suggests setting the camera's white balance to "Cloudy." He says it adds more yellow and orange hues to a photo, making scenes "look more like you remember them."

Rejefski passes this photo tip along from photographer Katsusuke "Kat" Harada, who lives in Japan. The two are longtime friends and were roommates in college. Rejefski bought his first camera (a 35mm) on his first trip to visit Harada in 1973.

Rejefski likes photos that show something in a new way, whether that's a tight shot of a subject, or a different, unusual angle.

However: "Having a good photo eye is the first step," he said.

Find all of Rejefski's contributions to Your Take on his his contributor's profile.

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