[r9etb]

Rule #3: ALWAYS check your background.

The thing that most often separates good pictures from amateur snapshots is not the subject or the pose, but instead the car, messy table, garbage can, or whatnot, in the background.

[Nowhere Man]

The thing that most often separates good pictures from amateur snapshots is not the subject or the pose, but instead the car, messy table, garbage can, or whatnot, in the background.

Not only that, but I've seen my share of people who take pictures of someone in the foreground where the background is a lighted window and you cannot see the facial features or anything at all, in short, they looks like a "shadow person."