Beautiful Smiles
I am terrible when it comes to smiling. Half the time when I think I'm smiling, it is just my tense face relaxing a bit to a normal expression. For this reason, I absolutely adore the beautiful smiles and natural expressions that I am able to capture behind the camera -- see above for a lovely example. As I go through the photos from a session, it makes me happy to see these relaxed smiles and how beautiful my clients are. I'm always nervous to deliver a photo gallery, hoping that my work is more than acceptable; but I am also hopeful that I've captured my clients in a way that helps them see for themselves how beautiful they are.
So if you are like me and can't relax and give a natural smile, try to remember that you are beautiful and let your photographer capture that beauty in your smile.