What would you do?

[tarakc]

Hi Everyone,
I'm hoping this is the right place to post this, it's more for fun than anything but as always I'm open to anything.
I did a shoot yesterday, one of my dance colleagues and her friend for his 18th portraits.
I'm in the process of editing the photos and find one that's not up to my usual standard, but has the potential to look really good. I have a few ideas of what I might do with it, but I'd love to know....what would you do to make this photo sellable?

[frydham]

I think the pattern on his shirt would well in B&W, and maybe straighten it a little. It looks good though.

[Nicole]

I would straighten the wall (I find it more natural to have him at an angle than a building at an angle), and I would fix the skin tones. It's likely that the blue wall has caused the WB to be a bit off and is making the skin look far too blue. For example, something like this:

[candleman]

the chopped leg is your biggest problem.
Nicole made a good go of it,
I would take it a step further in the crop.

I like the dynamic of the tilt, to I exaggerated it.
fixed the WB on his skin only (maybe didn't go far enough with that)
added Vignette, which helps reduce the visibility of his chopped limbs and brings attention to his face.

[LoveDSLR]

Here's my crop:

[tarakc]

Thankyou guys!!

I'm interested by how many people think the whole thing should be straightened out. It was deliberately taken on an angle for something a bit different (after I look about 30 straight-up) and it's part of the reason I like it so much.

I'm in the process right now of upping the contrast on the wall, adding a vignette, adjusting his skin tone, spot repair on the grotty stuff on the wall and upping the saturation on the shirt.
I'll pop it up when it's done!!

[edbayani]

here is another suggestion, cropped off some of the top and added contrast and texture on the wall

[rosserx]

I took Nicole's crop, brought it into Lightroom and added a Graduated Filter on the wall to bring out some dynamics. The original is missing some much needed shadow/highlight dynamics...and a right foot!