[Tom Edgerton]

ReNae--

Look at the vertical break between the lights on the front of his face and the plane that's the side of his face--the inch or so just in front of his ear. It's a vertical plumb line from the frontmost hair at the temple downward--between the ear and about a half inch back from the eye socket. Farther down, where it meets the neck, is the corner of his jaw.

Usually when there's a break in the light that washes across the forms (in this case from left to right) that's as pronounced as this, it indicates something hard under the skin, i.e. bone, instead of something soft, i.e. fat or muscle. In that instance, there would be a more gradual gradation of the light, unlike here.

Unfortunately, the flash is washing some of this out.

In the photo, it's also a break between cool lights and warm halftones, and probably should be painted as such, though the photo is making this color shift harsher than it actually is.

Do you see what I'm talking about?