Tips for Taking Better Photos

The first tip is looking your subject straight in the eye i think i might need to work on this guideline because i just have a tendency to take a picture with out putting much effort into it. Now, especially when photographing children, ill pay more attention to keeping the camera at the person's eye level. The Next tip would be using a plain background this tip i do not need to work on. Using flash is were i seriously need help on. I always get confused whether to put the flash function on or off. I understand now that even when outside you might still want to engage in using the flash because the picture may still be to dark. I like getting close ups on people so this function I believe I am better at. I like the example in the article.  Its amazing how different feel of the picture is in tip 5. The way the first person took the photograph is boring and the second picture looks like it was from pride and prejudice or something. The ideal of focus i think is cool you can blur things in the photo.