Welcome back, Jan!

Quote Originally Posted by iND View Post
As far as these photos, try to crop them a little closer and see what happens.
I'd echo this, and remind everyone not to be a slave to the 3:2 ratio. In both cases, I think that would better highlight the main subject. I hope you don't mind my taking the liberty:

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The second crop does change the content by elimating his dad, alternatively some content-aware filling (a pretty crude attempt on my part) could remove the cars from the image:

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