Nothing is worse than a boring background.

Except a sharp stick in the eye....maybe. I always try to find an interesting background when I am on a location shoot. It can be anything from an old dead tree to pilings from the Cocoa Beach Pier as in this image. If nothing else, try to find a background with some cool colors and shapes and then shoot with a shallow depth of field to blur it some. You can always jazz up a background with a gel'd off camera flash....We will talk about that more later.