Feedback please

Good eye contact..... and I would love to see some detail to the face at the shadow side but not to bright to give some contrast with the highlight..... the line on his face will tell the full emotion ..... in my humble opinion

A great expressive face that reveals the daily challenges of his life. The bokeh of the seated man seems to distract from the subject's gaze. Bringing out more detail on the left side of his face may make the image even more tender and intimate.

Hi Rani,
I know this is about 2 years late, so I hope you are still around. Great image. Powerful in its own right.

I don't think there is much more you could have done in taking the image itself. It looks as if you may have stopped him as said "can I take your picture", so it isn't like you could have moved the background or anything else.

One thing I always like to encourage someone to do in post production is once you think you have your post completed is to close your eyes for 30-60 seconds (it is longer than you think), relax try not to think about the image at all, then open your eyes and pay attention to where your eyes go. Not to where you want them to go, but where they first go.

That is where your hot spots are. If your eyes don't immediately go to where your primary subject are, those are the areas you want to first approach. After you have worked on those areas, do it again. Eventually you are going to have your primary subject as your... well: primary subject. Then from that point you can start working on the enhancements in this case, he may need. Maybe lightening the side of his face, brightening his eye a little...

Great image... By the way; the hot spot I actually see when I open my eyes is the crate he is carrying. I thought it would have been the white space behind him but my eye goes straight to the crate on top of his head. Weird