Would you rather be in front of a camera or behind it?
Behind it. Hands down, for sure. I don't even do a lot of selfies except with my kids. And then I'm always trying to hid my less favorite features or using a filter. My best pictures are almost always ones where I'm not looking and have more of a candid feel. I have a picture from DD's newborn session where I'm holding her in front of me and DH is looking over my shoulder. We were straddling a bench so the picture was taken from the side. I'm almost sad DS isn't in the picture because it's my favorite but it doesn't show our complete family. (Minus the girls of course but they wouldn't have any of that anyway!)
This spring my cousins got the idea that it would be fun to have our pictures done together with all our kids since we all have kids now. It was really nice! But man I could not smile right for anything! I didn't think I was THAT nervous; but my smile kept twitching. My hair looked good, my outfit was nice. Just awkward smiles. As soon as we were done; no problem! We ended up with good pictures of us and great ones of the kids; but . Mostly they got awkward smiles out of me. Maybe we can try again someday.
Behind it. Hands down, for sure. I don't even do a lot of selfies except with my kids. And then I'm always trying to hid my less favorite features or using a filter. My best pictures are almost always ones where I'm not looking and have more of a candid feel. I have a picture from DD's newborn session where I'm holding her in front of me and DH is looking over my shoulder. We were straddling a bench so the picture was taken from the side. I'm almost sad DS isn't in the picture because it's my favorite but it doesn't show our complete family. (Minus the girls of course but they wouldn't have any of that anyway!)
This spring my cousins got the idea that it would be fun to have our pictures done together with all our kids since we all have kids now. It was really nice! But man I could not smile right for anything! I didn't think I was THAT nervous; but my smile kept twitching. My hair looked good, my outfit was nice. Just awkward smiles. As soon as we were done; no problem! We ended up with good pictures of us and great ones of the kids; but . Mostly they got awkward smiles out of me. Maybe we can try again someday.