Thanks everybody ... the visual impact of these ladies alone just blows me away. I always have such a blast photographing them. They make it easy. These were just some quick picks from the 300-400 images I took that night. Going to be some more really good ones (and some great ones too) of these ladies, plus 4-5 others. Doug - It's a wall ... has wonderful texture. It's the same one that is in all the images except the one of Sidhe (that's a black backdrop behind her). Misha - Somehow I thought you'd think that. :) No, still tungsten light. Not bright at all, these were 2 ~250Watt lights. I do think I'm getting better at using this type of lighting. Chuck - Was a project at work (Seattle Times). We're going from a 54" web to a 50" web (width of the paper rolls). Required front to back modification of the entire operation. 6 months of a lot of work. I'd like to sleep for 2 months now. 'I could be wrong but I believe L. Rose fits the "look" Holman is going for.' There's no look particular that I'm going for in most of the stuff you see here; beyond my style - which is still evolving. I just enjoy photographing people (women especially) and trying to capture a part of them. I think part of it is that many of the people I've photographed recently may not happen to fit into the traditional mold is all. I do have some long-term (1-2 year) projects that are in the planning stages that will go for a "look"/theme. And some of these ladies will figure into that. Joe - To each his/her own. There are a large number of people who would disagree with you. The sad part, in my opinion, of forming such an opinion/attitude based on outward appearance is that you run the risk of missing out on meeting/knowing some very interesting and great people. Laura is an incredible dancer. The impressions she leaves on me are of a fierce, energetic, lithe and intelligent person. There is a lot of power behind those eyes when she locks them onto you. Also in my opinion, inner beauty has very little to do with outward appearance. I have known and photographed some women who were drop dead gorgeous in the traditional sense who were just "ugly" inside (their attitudes and opinions). I've also photographed many (especially the last 3 months) women who are not traditional in their appearance who have incredible inner beauty, intelligence and creativity. Cyn - Time of my own? Bahaha .. who said that? :) I'm trying ... it's just tough. I mean, I have to struggle to find time to come here these days. Don't know where all the time goes. -=>Donald

Thanks for looking guys. I know it gets confusing whenever you ask "How does that look?" on the net. Oh for the day when web browsers are all color managed and every monitor comes with built in hardware calibration. Will need to do a calibration to see for sure, but the yellow/orange of the image is probably close to where it should be. Looking back at the PS version of this, it's probably 3-4% a little more yellow than I like (can see it better in this light). This is shot under tungsten with color temperature shifted 7-800K higher to catch the warmer glow of that light.

My gut is telling me I have a problem somewhere else and not in the image. Looking at it now while not half asleep, I can see the pattern detail in her suit in this. It's a black on black pattern. If I can see that as well as the tiny feathers on the edges of the wings then I'm probably around where I should be.

My workflow is fully hardware calibrated, that's what's got me worried. My prints match my screen 99% of the time. If it had just shifted the color, I could understand that - would probably mean I had a bunch of colors outside my printers gamut. Don't know why it was so dark .. Blah.

Imarend - Don't think so. Even though consumer printers always show the inks as CMYK based, the vast majority (as in all but a very few specialized printers) are RGB devices at the printer driver level. No matter what you send it, it will convert it before printing to its native RGB workspace. My entire workflow is AdobeRGB based - everything from my camera to Photoshop to my printer is in the AdobeRGB space.

:/ Hate mystery crap that comes up from nowhere.

-=>Donald

Yeesh .. and vanished again. This should be the last week for the massive time at work. Changeover to 50" is this morning (it's underway ... I'm there in 1.5 hrs to convert over remote laser imaging and optical benders). Then maybe I can actually get stuff done. Thanks all ... been having lots of fun shooting this summer and it only promises to get more interesting from here on out. Joe - Oh, you have no idea. Just the stories I could tell surrounding the bulesque shoots alone ... oh my. :) Misha - Newspaper size alone, it isn't that big of an impact. Paper goes from being 13.5" wide to 12.5" wide. Where it matters is in newsprint cost: 4" wide swath of paper saved per roll, each roll is ~11 miles long, a main press run is ~5-8 units each going through 3-5 rolls, there are 4 presses. Adds up quick. 'chelle - Shot at the same time, it's a different image though (pose is different). Vienna is often a favorite. woof :) Michael - I'm thinking the wife is gonna say no on that one. :)

The curtains are actually pink. A little orange mixed in throughout on this one, corrected it as much as I could when I reprocessed it. Did notice that bluish-green tinge on her arm ... not sure what the heck is going on there. I guess that's what happens when you don't pay attention and switch to a new color profile, but run actions made for another one. Normally, I would have caught it quick, but I've been working on burlesque photos for the last 8 days. Not enough difference between shows .. sort of like not cleansing your palette when eating different foods. Couldn't see it anymore. Took a break for a bit yesterday and looked at some different types of images. Pascale - That use to bug me, but not anymore ... when people tell me I have a certain cast (or it's too bright or dark) I look to make sure and if I don't see it, I don't worry about it too much. I hardware calibrate my monitor every 7 days - so I know my colors are "right".