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Joan, the values in her face range from almost white (value 9 3/4) down to almost black (value 1 in her nostril) and black (value zero) in her pupils. I'd say that's a pretty good range. The cheek value averages about 3 1/2. Her right cheek and forehead average around 8, not counting the highlights. The scumbling adds great translucency and provides much depth. Keeping the values massed is the key. In other words, separating the the light and shadow values. This provides strength of form. I am not the least bit concerned with color temperature changes due to the ambiguity of those terms. I feel that identifying the hue, value and chroma of each color shape is much more precise for me.
Holly there are no blues used in the light. No black mixed with white. Just neutrals. When warm lights are scumbled over warm darks the resulting colors look cool. The background contains ultramarine blue in the scumble mixture and that same mixture was added to create the reflected light in the shadows. The reflected light under her chin is about a fifth value at the lightest point.
My monitor is perfectly calibrated except for when I'm using Photoshop. In Photoshop everything appears too yellow. The prints I make are stunningly real, relative to the colors of what I'm photographing, even though I print out of Photoshop. The Nikon Capture software appears too yellow as well, but the color is perfect in the Nikon View software. Go figure!?!
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