When setting up a portrait shot, consider simplifying the background to avoid photo clutter. If you take a photo of someone in front of a busy background, when someone else looks at the picture their eyes will wander all over the place.

Your photos should focus the viewer on the person, and only afterwards their surroundings. Instead of getting an entire mountain scene in the photo, just get enough so the viewer knows the person is in front of mountains. You cannot get entire skyscrapers in a photo and still record the details of a person's face, so unless you are just going for the effect of comparing the person's size with the largeness of their surroundings, focus on one background detail and let the person's image fill most of the viewfinder.

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