Thanks for your comments! You're right, the hair-stylist is too dark. Unfortunately I didn't have my huge add-on flash with me that day. These are the (few) times I wish I had a newer body with a built-in flash. Would a half-stop overexposure have worked? Of course, I wasn't thinking about the woman in the shadows at exposure time or I would have tried it.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3107800 this is the original image, uncropped. I cropped out the elements I thought were distracting and didn't add to the theme of the hair-braiding stall - but it does have some breathing space. Do you think it looks better? > Also, it looks like the woman getting her hair braided is slightly out of > focus. Yes, she is a bit soft. I guess my manual focusing wasn't that accurate on this quick snapshot. Again, thanks for looking! Badri
