The Saturday morning photo shoot was unexpectedly postponed so this allowed me to stay up past bed-time to work on cropping and toning some more of the portraits I've taken over the last week---and I'm nearly caught up. This photograph is one of Rita taken on Thursday. Rita is likely to be busy today, the 4th of July. She and her husband Bob are members of the Veterans of the Vietnam War Post 52, I'm not sure if they will be taking part in the Meadville 4th ceremony in Diamond Park, but I wouldn't be surprised. I often try to photograph a profile in my portrait sessions, some work, some don't. I laugh when they don't work because its seldom because of the person---its almost always because of the light. When a profile is what we call broadly lit--meaning the light comes from mostly the camera side of the face all the great detail of the profile is lost. Profile photos are almost 100% better when they are short lit--the light is more toward the back of the face and skimming across the features. I know I have about 150 more pictures of Rita to look through and tone some of, and I know there are some more profiles to go through to see which one's have that little extra something that will get me to go to the next level of toning and color correcting---I've already deleted the ones that made me laugh because I forgot how to light a profile for just a few moments(I will still try something even if I know it doesn't work--just to see if I can make it work! Haven't made a broadly lit profile work yet!) SayerMotter Photograph by Richard Sayer