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Will,
What a nice story your project has become. I will send students to this thread in the future to see how much an idea can be changed for the better. The photo is full of good reference. I wouldn't have expected the white against white to work so well but it provides great shapes and interesting shades and values of white.
I like the position and shape of the hand and would agree that you might try a darker tone but not so much that you might lose the wonderful abstract shape it creates as part of the grouping of light shirts.
I would suggest eliminating the finger ends of his right hand. Otherwise there is confusion resulting in the appearance of multiple thumbs stacked up along the outline of her blouse. Be careful with the "whites" of the eyes also. They look too white in the photo. The little wing at the top of her blouse juts out rather abruptly. You may want to try a more drooping angle.
An opportunity to buy a Minolta D5 at a bargain price turned out to be an excellent purchase for me. I use the bracketing also and recently started using the custom white balance setting to get truer color. I hope I get as good results as you did.
Good luck with the painting.
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