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Joan,
It is very difficult to lighten up a face on a standard print as it loses color saturation, with digital it is well nigh impossible.
You probably have an automatic metering system on your camera and you obviously are using that. The automatic meters for both the dark areas and the light and reaches a mean. To hold the light area you are losing the medium tones. You have to learn to overide the automatic system and learn to work more in manual mode. You have to meter on the face and bracket ( different exposures) to capture the white. At this point don't be too anxious to make a picture, master your photo skills first. There are a lot of good books out there that would help.
Take these photos as a learning experience, I would find them too dark to paint with. Give yourself the best possible material you can, especially at the beginning.
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