One of the most common mistakes when taking a photo has to do with not taking note of what’s in the background before snapping the photo. Here’s a good example of this where I snapped an otherwise decent enough photo of son Shea with Mikey Bowes at Caitie and Brady’s wedding. All I had to do was move over 2 feet to my left, and I wouldn’t have had those folks standing in the background of the shot pulling your eye away from Mikey and Shea.
Thanks to cropping however, you can usually correct some of these background problems.
But now, with the advent of selfies, it seems that background subjects in photos have their own category better known as photobombs. Thus, it may not be entirely the photographer’s fault when someone parachutes into the shot at the last second.
Here is a listing of supposedly the 25 best photobombs of all time. While not a bad collection, it includes a few too many pets for my liking. (Most of them look more posed than bombed to me.) To check all 25 of them out (click here.) But a couple caught my eye and I’ve included them below. Bottom captions are my additions.
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| Guess if you’re going to get photobombed, JC is a good one to do it |
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| Come on, the pullover is not that stupid |
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| “But He’s My Nigga” |
Here then as an example of a true photobomb where Brother Brian definitely nailed my attempted selfie with Charlie. (In case you are wondering, that’s a corkscrew hanging on the shelf above Brian’s head. Maybe this should be called a double bomb.)
There is even a photobomb song out there.