Hi @Panzer.IT
Generally speaking I agree with you about the tips related to light and framing a photo, and about to declutter a background. And I agree that an expensive camera is totally useless if we don’t follow some basic principle. In fact Google Maps is designed to take photos from mobile.
And I am very happy when I read a post like yours, because I believe that Your contributions in Google Maps can help me to improve the quality of my own contributions too.
In my opinion a good contribution in Maps is a well framed photo that show me how the place is, because it helps me to decide if visiting the place or not. What I expect to see in Maps is the place, the food, photos that are showing different aspects of the location.
So I wanted to check your contributions in Maps, and honestly what I see is very different from what you write.
In your last contribution (Tekne restaurant) we see:
- 4 selfies. One of them is also showing a drink, but the focus is in your face, not on the glass.
- One photo of a building on the other side of the rives
- 2 photos of a drink ove a table, that become irrelevant because of the persons (or part of a person) behind the drink, distracting from the main subject.
- an inclined photo of salt and pepper, with a building on the background
- a photo of a closed menu with [part of] people and the waitress around
- and finally, a photo showing us one part (maybe the entrance) of the place
To understand how the place is I had to check the listing in Google Maps, where your photos are visible only by scrolling down ALL the photos. Your photos are displayed at the end.
So I am no longer sure of what you, as a designer, are expecting from Good Maps Images, but for sure the images you added are not what I, nor the algorithm in Maps, would consider good.
IMHO a good photo is mostly about contents: No selfies, no redundancy, well framed images related to the location.
A few tips to you: