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Second of all, the photo reference is actually quite good. Go to the SOG main page and sift through the portrait artists there. There are no great painters there. Some are good, and a lot are average, but none are great. What I'm sure about the painters there is that they all had glowingly beautiful reference photos for their paintings. So, big deal? The quality of painting is still, on the whole, very average. The great photo reference doesn't matter, and the ability of the artist does.
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Excuse Me? If you look at the complete list of artists represented on the SOG site you will find more then a few very acclaimed artists. And there are artists among them who work from life and not from photos at all, so your statement that they all had glowingly beautiful reference photos is irrelevant.
So Mr. Finnegan, please give me a link to an artist who you do consider a great artist. And maybe let us know a little about yourself so that we can learn who this great art expert is. I would very much like to know where you learned so much about how to create a great painting from a poor photo. I could use that information the next time I am asked to paint one from inadequate reference.