I was reading an article about senior pictures and it said something along the lines of you should only ask someone smile about 10% of the time. Asking someone to smile is asking someone to pretend. I will try to say things to get people to smile, but often times i let them be themselves. Some people are not smiley and that ok. In each session I get smile photos and serious photos. I tend to like the ones where the people seem to be thinking. To me this gets more at the heart of their character. Photos by Richard Sayer