Crew Cast

Associate Showdown: Dominick Ray wins 4:04 Peter judges thirteen entries in the week's Headshot of the Week Associate Showdown and calls it for Dominick Ray after a live vote by raised hands.

The keeper-or-toss threshold is 6.5 13:15 Peter only asks the question when a shot is sitting on the fence between a 6.5 and a 7, the actual number behind an instinct he had never stated before.

You always have three things to move: eyes, brows, mouth 26:15 A flat mouth is only a valid choice if the eyes or brows are doing active work, otherwise the face conveys nothing.

Fixing a half-assed smile means chasing a real laugh 33:48 Getting a subject to actually laugh changes the mouth mechanics in a way a posed closed-mouth smile cannot match, at 34:18.

Closed mouth plus a full squinch, for a portfolio's opening image 54:29 Peter chains the two moves into a named formula strong enough to lead a portfolio, independent of whether the subject's smile would otherwise work.

Move your kicks precisely onto the cheek 47:04 A kick that lands on the neck, shirt, or shoulder is a placement miss, not a style choice.

For heavy orange skin, saturate first, then correct 58:00 Correcting the color before saturating means redoing the work, since saturation pushes the cast further orange.

Hair shelf is hair that stops tapering 43:12 It terminates abruptly at one density instead of gradually thinning, leaving a visible ledge.