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Thanks to you both.
I was watching a video once of a skilled traditional portraitist of the Monte Zucker school, and he commented that the ideal position for a profile allowed you to see the far eyelashes, but not any of the far eye. While I'm not a stickler for rules, I've found that often this position achieves the most "engaged" profile due to its slight turn in, as opposed to a "perfect" profile that tends to be slightly more remote.
In any case I tend to start there, but during posing I have nearly every subject do a slow 180deg rotation of their head to observe which angles work best for a given facial structure.
There was going to be no posing the little one. We just talked. I offered him $5 to allow me to take his photo and he suggested that $10 would be more appropriate.
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