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stefWhen you can’t see any detail in the darks that should have detail, it damn well is underexposed.
Posing and lighting can improve the look of portraits of large, round faces like this one.
There are many ways to do it, but short split or short loop lighting can really help. You just used very flat lighting which removed the jawline and emphasized all the wrong things. (this one is short split: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=254325954674140&set=a.210580092382060.37765.149966705110066&type=3&theater but I really like to have both eyes in focus, or very close, myself.)
I liked a lot of your random street photography in your wall album.
Even though you did use a bad selective color shot for no good reason (dog with bow) and you could use some work on lighting techniques, you’re not a fauxtographer. You have a pretty good eye, but need some study of the basics so that your camera and lighting do what you want them to do.