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The original was posted on /r/lifeprotips by /u/CorellianDawn on 2023-06-27 23:31:13+00:00.

If you want a picture of someone genuinely smiling, don’t just tell them to smile and take the picture. Give them a series of increasingly ridiculous or overly serious prompts and then have them “shake it out” between shots while joking around about the whole thing. Then, secretly take photos on burst during these in-between times. All of the tension falls away from the person and they get a goofy kind of high and you will get some truly great genuinely happy pictures.

This is a trick that a lot of professionals use and I figured I would share the love with the rest of the world for how they get those genuine moments on camera.