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[Pat Graham]

Thank you, Mischa. I hope you have a wonderful time at the Adriatic coast sketching!

I appreciate your comments, Alexandra, thank you. I was wondering if this piece radiated anything at all other than a lovely pose, so I welcome your remarks.
Regarding the values - I don't feel drawing her previously helped me manage this, I just kept working until it felt 'right'. My digital camera is like yours in that I don't think it captured the value transitions accurately, but close enough for me to use the images for reference. If I were going to be serious about catching the full range, I would have to take a series of pictures spot metering on the darker portions and then a series focused on the lighter ones. (As you probably already know, cameras aren't able to capture the full value range -- lights end up over exposed, or darks, under.) Together I'd be able to see the full range of values in them and then work from a cluster of photos. My camera is relatively new, (Panasonic Lumix DMC -FZ7 Ultrazoom) so I'm still finding out what it's capable of doing for me. Have you used a 35mm SLR in the past? If so, did you have better color results using it compared to your digital camera? Hmmmm...I'll have to dig through my stacks of photos and compare those from my 35mm SLR against my digital prints....

Pat