Great shot!! very cool!

Be careful of your backdrop when composing your shot. Generally, I prefer a clean backdrop that doesn't present distractions to the objects on focus in the foreground. In this photo, you can see someone's feet in the background. They are fairly distracting so I would've probably just cropped them out. In the future, try using a wider aperature, perhaps a F1.8 instead of F3.2. A wider aperature will create a shallower DOF and therefore even if there are objects like feet in the background, they will appear blurry and be less distracting.

Be careful of elements in the center of the photo but also on the edge of the photo. In the hand holding the cards, the cards are cropped off. Try to avoid cropped off distinct elements like cards in the future.

The general composition of the photo appears arbitrary. The hand over the deck is centered yet I don't understand why such emphasis is placed on this hand.

I don't see why this is an Expressive portrait since every face is cropped off and there is not much facial expression or any other discernable expression. So there is a lot of confusion to the emotion this photo is attempting to express.

The colors in this photo is a bit dark for my taste. Try doing some tonal curve editing to brighten the photo. Tone editing will also help bring out the intricate textures of the rocks and table. However, try to avoid simply brightening the photo since there are a lot of whites in this photo. Brightening will most likely result in overexposure.

I strongly suggest doing further experimentation with composing shots in different angles, with different aperatures, with different post editing techniques.

Hope this helps somewhat.

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