Wah Lui (owner of the Yuan Lui studios) said that a successful portrait sitting is one in which I get at least one exposure that both the sitter and I like. I got several in this sitting. We didn't have a north-facing window for light so we turned off the room lights and I set up a single, large, softbox about six feet away from Nancy, just to the right of my tripod (and, yes, unusual as it is for me, I used a tripod). It often takes a bit of schmoozing to get a portrait sitt