Hi everyone, Regarding Louis Dina’s post about reproducing the oil paintings… I have tried to do this using Alien Bees strobes, and eventually gave up in frustration. I use a very methodical technique for doing fine art photography that includes putting polarizing filters on the lamps, and also putting a polarizer on the lens. Then I make a profile, using the ColorChecker Passport and load that into Photoshop. It all works pretty well. BUT, the Alien Bees lamps do not have a clean enough color-rendering index to photograph fine art successfully. I tried the same set-up with my four Paul C. Buff Einstein lamps, and that did the trick, mostly. These strobes are much better for fine art, and they got me very, very close. There were still some colors that did not capture correctly. In a conversation I had with our friend Don Hutcheson, he suggested that I could solve the few small color problems I still have by using incandescent lamps. These incandescent lamps use tungsten filaments, and they have a continuous CRI, where almost any strobe lamp, even the Einsteins, will likely have small gaps in the CRI “curve” of the lamp’s output. I have now tried the same set-up with four incandescent lamps, and it works even better. The only problem is the heat. My polarizing filters nearly melt, the room gets very hot, and the room is uncomfortably warm. But I get much better color. Best wishes, Brian P. Lawler