A laborious yet exciting quest led me to discover what I have done wrong regarding focus. Following I have listed some check points I shall follow to control my outcome. I have been practicing since midnight last night photographically obsessed with the final print. The list is as follows in short:

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY CHECKLIST:

• BATTERIES
• SD CARDS
• CAMERA IS ON TRIPOD
• NON-CPU LENS DATA
• LENS
• FOCAL LENGTH
• APERTURE F-STOP
• LIVE VIEW FROM CAMERA BACK
• RED FOCUS BOX
• FOCUS
• ISO
• WB
• SHUTTER SPEED
• VIEW FINDER FOCUS DIAL (IF NECESSARY)
• VIRTUAL HORIZON IS ON

These checkpoints grant me access to finer images I hope will render better prints. One does not photograph on Automatic once Manual techniques have been discovered. Automatic is no longer faithful.