Family Pictures - best way to take photos?

Everyone has already given great suggestions, but I think it also helps if you keep lighting and the background in mind. For basic portraits, I like to use the lights that come with Moschino. But it's possible to get more interesting and fun looks if you play with the lights in the game (change the colors, change the intensity, turn some on and some off, etc.). For the background, sometimes it's nice to have a plain one-colored background and at other times, it seems better to have a more complicated background to convey the feeling of the photo (ex. sims celebrating a holiday, returning from a vacation, being ranchers, etc.).

I use mods and CC to the extent that it's hard to find EA content in my game... but I will try to show some examples in case they're helpful anyway.
https://i.imgur.com/qOIOkOW.jpg

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