Angry Officer C&C Welcome

[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?

Recently i have attended a Theater play in New Delhi for a photo shoot. The story's title was "Court Martial" which is based on a story about caste system in India, in Indian Army where an officer shot his senior officer who was embarrassing and abusing him for past 2 years infront of everybody. It is a scene of an Army Court.

Here in this image i tried to show the emotions where other officers are trying to stop him to beat the other one lying on the ground.

I like the composition where is there is a dynamic balance between the officers and the hands coming from the right is acting as a leading line and adding to it. Also, the angry officer is surrounded with the hands which are acting as a vortex and bringing more attention to the office. Angry officer is gaining more attention because he is tack sharp and surrounded by the motion energy around him. Chopped table on the left is acting as a barrier to stop my eyes to go out of the frame. Wooden structure behind is making a frame for the officers. Please correct me if i'm wrong in observing the composition.

All the motion blur in the image is real and deliberately used a shallow DOF 90mm @ F4.5, 1/100 with the processing i hardly took 4 min. for the colored version and 10 min. for the colored version. I'm more inclined towards the B&W version because it is full of emotions.

Please provide your views and suggestion, which version is looking better colored or B&W and what can be done to improve it. Composition wise and processing wise.

Thank You

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

B&W Version :


Colored Version :


Update 1 : Remove the table and hands as suggested.

[deetheturk]

Good capture Raj

[Manfred M]

A very nice cature Raj. Somehow I prefer the B&W version, but only slightly.

I would remove the prop on the left side of the scene and would probably get rid of the hands on the right in post as well. These (especially the hands) do take away from the image.

[fotugraphy]

Good capture Raj

Thanks a lot for your kind review and m glad you like it

[fotugraphy]

A very nice cature Raj. Somehow I prefer the B&W version, but only slightly.

I would remove the prop on the left side of the scene and would probably get rid of the hands on the right in post as well. These (especially the hands) do take away from the image.

Thanks a lot for your valuable review sir. Hope now the skin color is good with the color version. Really appreciated about the knowledge you gave about white balance correction.

really wanna learn the art of including and excluding the elements in the image. Here is the version as suggested and looking good :

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[fotugraphy]

Nicely captured.

Thanks for your kind review and appreciation

[Manfred M]

Thanks a lot for your valuable review sir. Hope now the skin color is good with the color version. Really appreciated about the knowledge you gave about white balance correction.

really wanna learn the art of including and excluding the elements in the image. Here is the version as suggested and looking good :

This is more effective, I think, but the unattached (ghostly) hands that are floating on the body need to disappear.

[fotugraphy]

This is more effective, I think, but the unattached (ghostly) hands that are floating on the body need to disappear.

oops!! Sorry Forgot to remove them. Thanks a lot for pointing.

Ps : Fixed

[bnnrcn]

Very nice Raj

[fotugraphy]

Very nice Raj

thanks for your kind review and appreciation

[FootLoose]

Good capture, Raj. I like the perspective and there is just enough motion blur in the victim's limbs. The solid black and white processing really adds to the drama of the scene. Very well done.

[fotugraphy]

Good capture, Raj. I like the perspective and there is just enough motion blur in the victim's limbs. The solid black and white processing really adds to the drama of the scene. Very well done.

thanks a lot for your kind review and appreciation.

[Walj]

How about this?

[fotugraphy]

How about this?

Thanks for the review and suggestion. Sorry the thread just skipped, dont know how.