I experienced that on a trip to Japan. I filled up a 32GB card for the first two thirds of the trip including Oita, Osaka Kyoto and Hiroshima and put it away for the next card. When I got home the card had disappeared and I looked everywhere and called the lost and founds in three airports with no luck. So I eventually accepted that I was a dumbass who didn't secure the card enough. So many great memories in photos and video...
Then two months later I'm looking in my bowl of reader glasses and I see a card at the bottom. I thought it was a new one I'd just bought and just for the heck of it I'd look to see if anything was on it. And damnit it was the missing Japan photos! I don't know if I've even been happier!
So I had the deep loss and enrapturing discovery!
I've had a lot of luck posing people for headshots. Mainly I have them turn their whole body to the right or left then twist to face me. I rarely have subjects face me directly with their shoulders square to me.
There are always people who say they don't like themselves in photos. I kind of feel that way. If they have that look in their eye that they think they'll look bad, I try to distract them. Like asking them to do a complete spin and get them right as they come back around. Once I had a kid do jumping jacks. I have them say funny words like pickle or mommy or my girlfriend or have them intentionally lisp like "Why tho therious?"
You want heavy women to really listen to you? Tell them how to make themselves look skinny in a photo...
If you don't like yourself in photos, its really something you can work on. Look in the mirror and say its showtime or big dick or sexy. Turn sideways from the mirror and only turn your head and neck facing it --that's the way I look best in photos so I always try to pose like that.