They wanted the skates on the left because they are a Roller Derby Team, and they payed for the photo, but I agree with your take on the composition.
I tried several different PPs, and there's another where I made the table cloth Red, but it's an HDR and I did not post it here. I think I'll give the PP on this another try for grins and do a red covering without the HDR.
I 100% agree with you on the light balance between left and right. Next time I will bracket with the flashes. This was actually shot at an outdoor bar at the Jackelope in Austin. The LCD on my 7D did not give enough detail outdoors to see the imbalance. Live and learn until next time.
SonicZoom wrote in post #9854196
Very engaging picture, a lot going on and that's cool!
3 things that bother me
-the extra space on the left, compared to the right
-the blown out white table, and how there is a straight horizontal white line cutting off hands/objects
-the 3 right girls are lite much brighter than the rest of the girls