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Joan, if you are going to eliminate the cat and just do a head-and-shoulders (all these decisions apparently happened after I had turned off my computer so I'm just catching up), I would definitely go for the first of the two. Her position in the frame is more dynamic, and actually the lack of space on her left doesn't bother me at all. You have a diagonal created by the slant of her head and her chest that creates a nice dynamic in the rectangle. That dynamic is diminished by putting her in the center and balancing out the negative space on all sides of her. I can really feel the difference. If you put in more space to the left, you are really just creating dead space that doesn't need to be there. By contrast, that triangle of space to the right needs to be there. That is my opinion!
Alex
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