This has a whole lot of potential, particularly with your talent for processing. The issue isn't with any of that so much as the layout. He's right in the middle of the picture, with no really interesting angles or composition. Just a very interesting man.

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"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth"

work on your composition.
The first thing I see:
the white line sticking out of his head.
Feet are cut off
Gigantic space above him, around him.

There's no purpose to the shot. This is a portrait, not street.
Add something else. Question reality, question society, authority, most of all question art.

You are trying to convince me that this is art.
Define art for yourself (really think about it. So far I've taken like 4 classes total on art and the theory behind it and still don't have an answer. Oh I've also been doing art for over a decade. It takes a while)

Finally, my last thing....do less editing.
When you edit, that means that your photos are "imperfect" right? But what does Imperfection mean in the art world today? Look at a bar of soap for example. One was made in a factory, $5. The other was hand made, with little rocks and things inside it. $45. Imperfections are OK. Fix your exposure, maybe add a *little* bit of contrast, but that's about it. I never have and never will add any burning, dodging, overlay (why would you do that), color enhancement, or color burning.

See when I do that, I think of my photo more as a piece of photomanipulation than a photograph. Are you trying to say you're a photographer, that you can snap a perfect frame any day, or that you need a $1000 program to help your imperfections.
I'm against training wheels.

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