Raw Conversion Challenge!

Drisley thanks for the comments
I cheated a bit with my version in as much as I dropped out the background to mono and also cropped to emphasize just the face.
some colour versions on here look far to vivid, whilst i don't think mine to be correct, I do feel we all need to consider how all people look at colour differently.
what is right for one may not for the next person add to that the fact of all our monitors will show vastly differing images/colour. There are to many variables.
whenever i get a chance in front of someone elses computor I will bring up one of my images off my Gallery to see how it looks,
put 10 dif computors/monitor set ups in the same room and view all that really would be an education i think.
in my view the only real way is to produce the final prints and then study in daylight

Cheers
Martin (Huckaback Photo)

Bryno, much better imho Really nice!
Huckaback, I am often surprised at how bright most people run their monitors.
It really brings out things (like noise) I don't notice on my calibrated monitor.

Here is attempt #2... I used my RSA color correction filters and gave it a touch more saturation. Overall I think the results are good. I also imported the 20D profiles into my neatimage plugin and applied it. Dris... tell me what you think of this? Does it pop a little more now?

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Yup, looks nice. I like the effect of neatimage on her skin.

Awesome... thanks for your input.

I think you should increase the tint value a little, and maybe cool the temperature slightly.
It looks a little on the warm side.
As far as losing saturation, it's probably because you are working in the AdobeRGB colour space in Photoshop. If so, you can either change your colour management to sRGB, or convert the image profile to sRGB before you save for web.