What’s wrong with this picture?
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ackgrounds are just as important as subjects in making a photograph successful. If the background is distracting, busy, or annoyingly too light, the picture suffers.
Costumed carnival participants in Venice often pose in front of the Doge’s Palace in San Marco Square, and that’s fine . . . depending on the background stonework, windows, doors, and columns. In this case, the window at the upper right corner is distracting. It takes our attention away from the subjects. The only thing to do was to replace it with stonework that matched the building.
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