Oh hey! I saw her sewing those pants :)

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Did I spell her name right? heh.

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I think so, yes!

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rawk. ^_^

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nope. it's Dominique for these purposes.

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eau, right.

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Nice shot! I love how you captured the movement. A tight crop would take out that back doorway and the shadow in front, and still be true to the spirit?

Or did you not want photo criticism? Am I babbling incoherently here?

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I ALWAYS want criticism. ^_^

I played with a couple different crops and ended up leaving both those elements in for the feel I was going for.
Now I feel the need to go back and do it again...

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So here's the more "circus performer" crop of the same image...
It probably looks better from a purely objective perspective as a shot of someone doing something cool, but part of what I like about my original crop was that it gave you a slightly larger sense/context of what the space was and what was going on.

I guess you could say this is a prettier crop and the original is more photo-journalistic?

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I'm going to go with "I like the tighter crop better" if only for light-balance reasons.

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I like the prettier crop, personally. For artsy and for photo journalistic reasons. :) Yay you!

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OOOH!!

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