Drool! [And not just because of the babe!] Really like the dynamic angle here. [I'm seeing strange tilts a lot in the Gallery lately. Here it works really well. Is this a recent "fad"?] Lighting is perfect. Wow! What more can I say! About the banding... What did you do? I've expanded it here for those of us who are monitor-challenged. In your original it just steps up one level at a time. ...wonder... If you convert to B&W like I sometimes do, by just copying the Red, Green, or blue channel... this likely quantizes to 8-bits. If, however you are not as lazy as I am, and convert using the channel mixer... the arithmetic should be in the full precision... Time for an experiment!