Wet Figure

PDE

Hi Jerry:

Wet or oily/greasy? Water does not behave like that. Surface tension and the laws of physics preclude it unless the model was pre-treated with a surfactant. Maybe she could be wetted with oil?

Regards, John

One of the joys of English is that the meaning depends so much upon interpretation and context.  For instance: 

Wet - consisting of, containing, or covered with or soaked by a liquid; not yet dry or firm; allowing or favoring the sale of alcoholic beverages or a person favoring same; a recreational drug made of marijuana, PCP and formaldehyde ; to urinate on or in; immature or naive or green (as in "wet behind the ears"); to treat a fabric with an agent to increase absorbency; to treat a liquid with a wetting agent to change surface tension and increase adherence (as in the darkroom, wetting agent.)

Take whatever meaning the context provides that pleases you.

Jerry

Just a shade overexposed for my taste but once again, I love the sculptural feel to it. I'd love to see this in black and white.

When you say overexposed, you are responding to the specular highlights which always appear at the highest white level, no matter what the exposure of the main subject.  If reflections of light from chrome or from overlain moisture in the subject, they will be pure white (at the clipped level).  I invite you to download this photo and experiment with different adjustments to exposure yourself (in something like Adobe raw, which accepts jpegs)  - it is impossible to get the highlights to be anything but pure white. At best you can adjust their apparent width by modifying the edge tones. Therefore all you can do to change exposure is affect the normal highlights to shadows - which I believe are handled well as this stands before you.  If you make this any darker, the shadows will lose all texture and become pure black - at that point the image would be "soot and chalk."

As far as printing it in monochrome, I prefer the basic tonal scale to have the use of flesh color as an additive.  It is, just like choosing cake with or without icing, an individual preference.

Jerry

Just beautiful. Congrats.