“It often looks better if you take your own pictures because you can plan ahead and match all the lighting and perspective beforehand,” says Valdes-Hevia.
Finding stock images or other existing photos with complementary elements is possible, but sometimes the best photos are the ones you take yourself in a controlled photoshoot. “It often looks better if you take your own pictures because you can plan ahead and match all the lighting and perspective beforehand,” says Valdes-Hevia. Getting shadows and perspective to line up and work together is much easier if you’re the one who created those shadows and perspectives in the first place.