Saying "be natural" is what freezes people. These five candid photography prompts are real questions you say out loud that pull people into a moment instead of a pose, with the one thing every list skips: when to press the shutter.

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Your camera roll passed 2,000 photos and you froze. Four simple questions sort the keepers from the clutter in a single afternoon: Would you frame it? Would you miss it? A favorite person in it? Does it tell a story? Everything else stays in the cloud, guilt-free.