I Can See You

[fotugraphy]

Hi, going forward on my photography venture I stopped and clicked another shot. Can you please review it and let me know what exactly is missing for it to make it much better?

It was clicked in the streets of New Delhi, India. I really like the t-shirt behind so composed the shot, I wanted to click a candid shot with this guy and waited for 20 min. He noticed me with the camera facing towards him and he smiled and gave me the shot without noticing that the T-shirt behind him was like watching him

The place was cluttered and the light was really low and bad. I tried my best to tone down the clutter of the market. I havnt removed the clutter because i wanted to give a market feel to the image.

Thank You

PS : Please click on the image for lightbox screen view (Highly recommended).


Update 1 : removed the sign board and tone down the pole as suggested


Update 2 : Fixed harsh highlights on the face

[Shadowman]

Nicely done, that post and sign is a bit too close to his head though.

[fotugraphy]

Nicely done, that post and sign is a bit too close to his head though.

Thanks for your kind review and suggestion. It was my main concern too while processing. I remove the sign and tone down the post too.

[Shadowman]

Thanks for your kind review and suggestion. It was my main concern too while processing. I remove the sign and tone down the post too.

Raj,

Much better.

[dabhand]

Raj

Your patience was well rewarded.

steve

[Polar01]

Raj almost love the shot, here is what I think can be improved, there are four small hot spots on the face, one the forehead, the cheek, nose and ear. if you were to add an curves adjustment layer with mask, use the finger pointer and click on one of those spots then lower the output of 255 to 221 then invert the mask to black to conceal, take paint brush make white and 10% and slowly work those areas to reveal the darker image underneath. They are very small spots but I found doing this really improved the face. As for that shirt he is wearing it makes it look like his head is on backwards LOVE IT, makes me want to keep looking at the whole thing.

Cheers: Allan

[fotugraphy]

Raj,

Much better.

Thanks a lot for your kind review

[fotugraphy]

Raj

Your patience was well rewarded.

steve

Thanks a lot for your kind review and appreciation

[fotugraphy]

Raj almost love the shot, here is what I think can be improved, there are four small hot spots on the face, one the forehead, the cheek, nose and ear. if you were to add an curves adjustment layer with mask, use the finger pointer and click on one of those spots then lower the output of 255 to 221 then invert the mask to black to conceal, take paint brush make white and 10% and slowly work those areas to reveal the darker image underneath. They are very small spots but I found doing this really improved the face. As for that shirt he is wearing it makes it look like his head is on backwards LOVE IT, makes me want to keep looking at the whole thing.

Cheers: Allan

Thanks a lot for your valuable review and suggestion. I have tried to fix the harsh highlight as suggested. Here is the fixed image: