Bizzare how I never saw that crop..! Thanks Sodafari, DPS and Manny, it does make sense as the lower half is adding nothing to the over all image. I might get a landscape / square print out of his..!
Actually, you might want to ignore my comment – It looks nice now at home in the relative darnkness on the same laptop that I was looking at earlier (work, overly bright)
I am no expert, but you already have the cheap and best solution – your Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 II.
If you can’t or don’t want to use flash and yet want to shoot dark / stage , you need something that let’s in as much light as possible. May be a 50mm 1.4?
Congratulations! It’s a nice shot – a little bit different as the expression isn’t the usually happy, or indifferent even. It’s a bit perplexed bordering sadness look that makes the photo a bit slow to talk to you, but once it does, it is indeed though provoking.