It is wonderfully easy as a photographer to be the unobtrusive observer: You creep around like a ninja, sneaking great shots of people interacting. It is orders of magnitude more difficult to transform a shot that is 90 percent perfect into perfection by stepping in—in an entirely pleasant and professional way—to change the one thing that is slightly off. Moving a water bottle out of the frame of a bride applying her lipstick, or taking the fistful of crumpled napkins out of a grandmother's clutches can turn a nice candid into something better. Art direction like this requires vigilance, creativity, and an ability to see the potential of a photo, not only the reality. In this shot, asking the bride to rest her flowers on the table instead of handing them to a bridesmaid adds a little something to a simple picture of signing the marriage license with the priest. And although that type of intervention may not have the cachet of the hands-off photojournalist, it will result in a more beautiful album, the truth be damned.