Welcome, Mike. As you undoubtedly have noticed by now, this is a beautiful group of people here - a great community. NICE portrait work! Dang - would I like to be able to do that! (I'm workin' on it). It shows up on a monitor pretty good - it must look dynamite as a photographic print. I have two questions, if you don't mind: 1) How much of that great 'aura', or 'halo' effect on the background was in the original LIGHTING, and how much was in the digital POST WORK? 2) Being that the original was done in B&W, by a darkroom pro - were ALL the 'levels' adjusted in PS, or did you do some of the adjustment in the processing (I mean 'Ansel-style', like over-expose, and then under-develop for more exposure lattitude, for intance)? ..Think you could provide some more stats on this shot? OK, I'll quit buggin' ya. Looking forward to seeing more of your work soon (with some tips on technique maybe!). Joe