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Martin,  I really like your subject's bright and bold patterned garment  It fits with the smile on her face.  Unfortunately you have two other people in the picture, one of whom is apparently watching you.  This tends to confuse the story.  The fact that one of them is cut off half way does not help the story your picture is trying to tell, either.  My suggestion for an approach to this kind of an image is to use the widest aperture your lens has, to throw most of the background out of focus using shallow depth of field.  To help it even more a very weak fill flash could lighten the eye socked and her face generally.

Regards,

Jerry

Thanks, Jerry.