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[[File:Common errors - Camera tilted.jpg|thumb|240px|<translate><!--T:10--> Camera tilted</translate>]]
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Take care to keep the camera straight. Spending ten seconds on [[:en:Composition (visual arts)|composition]] (how the visual elements are arranged in the photo) and alignment can greatly improve your picture quality. And in spite of what you may see others doing, always hold your camera or your smartphone in both hands when composing and taking the picture.
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Try to avoid objects that obstruct the view of your subject. Choose a different angle, or (if the obstruction – especially parked cars – might go away) come back later. You can even ask driver to move his car for a while – most of people agree to do it if asked politely. If you absolutely can't avoid cars, it's better to ensure that numberplates are not visible for privacy reasons. Sometimes number plates had to be blurred out before uploading the image.
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People can also obscure the composition either if they are walking by or, especially, posing for a picture. Please don't upload images of people posing, even if there's a nice building in the background!</translate>
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<translate><!--T:59--> If your camera creates a timestamp watermark, please turn off that feature beforehand. We also advice you to not add any author watermarks with post-editing and add the author data into the [[c:Commons:Exif|metadata]] instead to ensure clear authorship.</translate>
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Don't chop off the top of the building or, as some people like to say: "''make sure you get the cross on top of the steeple''". It can ruin a good picture if the viewer expects to see something that has been chopped off.
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Don't chop off the bottom of the building unless it's unavoidable. It's easy to forget the bottom when you point your camera up to get the top of the building.
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[[File:Common errors - flare.jpg|thumb|240px|<translate><!--T:24--> Flare</translate>]]
<translate><!--T:62--> Avoid pointing the camera too close to the sun. The amount of flare in this photo makes the picture unusable, even though the sun itself is outside the frame. If sun is over or behind the building you can try to place it out of the frame and cover your lens from the sun by hand, but it's not a 100% successful tactics. The best decision will be to come back later, when the sun will shine from another direction or will be obscured by clouds.</translate>
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To avoid camera movement, especially in dark interiors, use the font or a pillar as a support. Blurred images such as this are of little use. Even outside, occasionally we're lucky enough to have something solid like a bench or fence conveniently located; if so, try resting your camera on it for greater stability, and see if the composition and alignment work from that angle.
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[[File:Common errors - underexposed.jpg|thumb|240px|<translate><!--T:30--> Underexposure</translate>]]
<translate><!--T:64--> The camera has automatically exposed the sky correctly, but that leaves the building much too dark. If your camera has exposure adjustment, increase the exposure by about one stop and try again. If that doesn't solve the problem, take the picture from another angle and try to keep the amount of sky to a minimum.</translate>
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<translate><!--T:65--> Overexposure like this is not very common on modern cameras. If you see it, check your camera settings: the "exposure compensation" may have been set incorrectly.</translate>
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<translate><!--T:66--> Here, the camera autofocus has latched on to the lamp to the left, rather than the building.</translate>
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[[File:Common errors - do not photograph signs-Edit.jpg|thumb|240px|<translate><!--T:37--> Don't photograph signs!</translate>]]
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Please don't upload photographs of posters, noticeboards, signs, modern murals, or anything else having text or two-dimensional images that might be copyright-protected. That applies even to text or images in a public place – even if everyone else is taking pictures of them. Ancient wall paintings in churches are fine: they have no copyright protection.
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[[File:St Peter's Parish Church, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.jpg|thumb|240px|<translate><!--T:42--> St Peter's Parish Church, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire</translate>]]
<translate><!--T:68--> The signs are small in the composition and don't cause a copyright problem. Maybe you can do even better than this?</translate>
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* Individually uploaded photos of local buildings
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* Wiki Loves Monuments, 'Wiki Takes ...' events and 'Wiki Scavenger Hunts'
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* [[<tvar name="link1">:en:Composition_(visual_arts)#Compositional_techniques</tvar>|Compositional techniques]], in the English Wikipedia.
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* [<tvar name="link2">https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fda.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBilledkomposition</tvar> "Picture composition"] in the Danish Wikipedia (Google translation into English).
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* [<tvar name="link3">https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Ffi.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSommittelu&sandbox=1</tvar> "Composition"] in the Finnish Wikipedia, which goes into greater detail concerning lines and directionality (Google translation into English).
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