I can tell how exited you are, and you got some really good shots the other day. When John worked as a photographer, he used these tricks too, and umbrellas. It really softens it up.

These days, you can work on things like this in Photoshop, but back then it meant a lot more darkroom work if the light wasn't perfect. One time while John was in England, a customer called, he wanted 1oo prints of photo John had done for a poster. I volunteered to do them, but I had to give the face a few more seconds on each, so I was in the darkroom all night (it was a rush job). I got good money though.