Tips for taking better pictures 
Watch your back ground. We don’t want to see the new flower bed the wife’s making we want to see your cannon.
Watch your foreground. The best angle to take outdoor pictures is with the sun at your back. Watch your shadow and tell the dog to get lost.
Remember you are taking a picture of the gun not the country side, get close. Look in the view finder and look behind and in front of the gun.
Don’t shoot down on the gun, shoot your picture closer to the level of your gun.
Shooting straight sideways makes the gun look flat. Shooting into the sun causes reflections and puts the side in the shadow.
Take pictures of smaller guns slightly elevated and from an angle.
Sometimes the physical surroundings just won't let you get everything right.
Don't fret. Your Photo software can help you. Learn to use the crop feature of you software.
You can use the crop feature to take out the trash.
But what about the shadows.
Not great but better. Using the contrast controls of my software I lightened this picture up.
Experiment. I got way back and zoomed in on the muzzle. Needs some sand bags or a barricade of some sort, but you get the idea.
Pictures taken on the work bench in the shop with the normal shop clutter in the background are no good either.
When taking a picture indoors, be sure your light is coming from indoors. Light streaming in for an open door or window is no good. And never take a picture with a large window in background, it just becomes a mirror.
Indoors make a photo table to take pictures on. This is piece of billiard green cloth t-shirt material bought at the fabric store, thumb tacked to the wall and draped over a table.
Cropped from the above photo and using nothing but the over head fluorescent lights.
Details can be interesting also.
Best place to take pictures of your gun is on the Range. You can also see the difference between a digital and scanned in chemical photo.
Nice cannon, but how big is it?
The first time you post pictures include something in the picture for scale. A powder can is nice.
