Greetings from the Critique Club!
I gave this image a 6 during voting, and that's because this is a very good shot that I wish had done better in voting. Though not crazy about the tilted background, at least your subject is in turn tilting slightly the other direction. The b/w is a very good call for anything with an urban background, I find; the profusion of strong, bright colours in many cities only detract from the subject.
Your subject definitely looks like he has a story to tell, and I wish you hadn't touched his face in pp. He's barely in his 20s, far too young imnsho to ever retouch the skin of anyone unless they have something that they truly wish to hide, like really bad acne, a port-wine stain, scars, tats etc. Let the character in a person's face, via their lines/wrinkles etc, show and tell us the story of their lives - please, do NOT get in the habit of pp'ing them to the extent that they look like a figure in a wax museum (or on the cover of People magazine)!
Lighting and comp are good, but once again I am wondering why you choose to use such a high ISO (and risk creating noise/grain, which you then have to remove...so avoid the hassle and shoot as low an ISO as possible) and needlessly fast shutter speeds for subjects that are hardly moving. This could have been easily caught at ISO 100 and a shutter speed of 1/200....max.
Overall, a very good shot, please keep up the good work in terms of concept and execution...but perhaps move out of your pverly high ISO, warp-speed shutter button comfort zone. Shoot slower and with less ISO. Experiment. Learn.
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