[heartseye]

"Bob,
What you describe in your post is exactly how 98+% of all portrait
makers in the world approach each and every one of their cliants before a studio session."


It certainly SHOULD be......but it simply isn't. In my entire career I have met less than a dozen who insist on an in-client-house-interview before accepting the shoot.

The priest was shot on an RZ67 with 3 Norman lights. It looks as it does because I wanted it to look that way. It is shot on ,location in the actual church which was so much a part of his life. The location was carefully studied along with a couple of other possibilities. Hardly a snapshot. As you might imagine, the image qualtiy of the print is somewhat better than it appears here.....

As for the "customer passing away etc....." You are exactly right. The client is whom the image is created for.....