I'm never sure where the wind will take me during a photo shoot and the processing afterwards.I have a lot to learn about shooting big family portraits and the more I do them the more I realize that there is a dynamic to them and in order to make them work you need levels and layers. Our small studio space makes this a little more difficult, but not impossible. Tonight as I was preparing this image to be the featured picture of the day I began to see a possibility for a style I didn't see while shooting and decided to experiment and 'sketch' a little. A sketch is something you do to work out an idea and even though I'm not sold on the idea that this is done, I like the direction and think after a nights rest that maybe I'll be able to tweak this idea a little further and apply it to the more serious portraits that we also made during this session....and I certainly need to refine the edges too if I work out this concept further. I just hope the family likes the look...and I'll need to try to do this a little more color to see how that works...because even though I love black and white and sepia images...I know not everybody else does. SayerMotter photographic sketch by Richard Sayer