Move everything a little bit left in beamer

Question

I am putting an image in each column on a slide, everything is perfect except that because the first image starts too far right and it pushes a small part of the second image off the slide. How can I move where the images begin a little to the left so the entire images are included on the slide? Here is my code, again it would fit but it starts too far to the right on the slide.

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Trends in total Events}
\begin{columns}
\column{.5\textwidth}

\includegraphics[scale=.4]{eventsgraph1.pdf}

\column{.5\textwidth}
\includegraphics[scale=.4]{eventsgraph2.pdf}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}

Answer 1

You can use \hspace with a negativ length to shift the picture to the left. Pay attention: you must not have a blank line between \hspace and \includegraphics

\column{.5\textwidth}
    \hspace{-1cm}
    \includegraphics[scale=.4]{eventsgraph1.pdf}

You could also automatically resize the picture according the available space:

 \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth,height=.7\textheight,keepaspectratio]{eventsgraph1.pdf}