hmmm for some reason when I saw this the first thing I thought of was Les Miserables and the character Fantine. I think if you had been able to get her aside and take her photo elsewhere it would have been better without others in the background, even though they are blurred it still distracts. 8
the dof is just magic here
background looks like some Lautrec impressionistic painting
only thing im not sure of is the way the hand of the woman in the foregound fitts in
but her look and the mood makes it all good
Nice DOF. Gives her a context, yet keeps the focus on her. Later, you might want to play with dimming the light bulbs or cloning them out just to see how it affects the image.
I like the DOF, but not the skin tones. I suspect the tones are suppose to be that way to invoke an old time feeling, but I think the costumes imply that well.
What strange make-up these ladies have on - I'm very curious about for what they are modeling. They almost look like they are made up look dead or something. Very different and unusual picture.