Photography

I dread having my picture taken. Lately I've been hired to photograph candids and portraits of people for local magazines. I try to put people at ease when I photograph. I tell them, "I love your face," or "You're beautiful," and I mean it. Most people just don't want to see another bad picture of themselves. I don't blame them. My family was constantly photographing itself. I always cringed at the results, and it didn't help that sometimes the photos would become evidence used against me, as in "You look fat in that picture." Now when I see photos of myself, I try not to cringe and think I look terrible. I've been getting a lot of joy from putting people at ease when I photograph them.