Graduated filter in RT from left to right, balances the background and affirms the precise focus and depth, I wouldn’t crop it the shadow behind achieves background separation successfully. RT colour temp was chosen as a sampled from the boy’s trousers, I’m not a fan of pumped up colours and since red draws the eye regardless I think the primary concern should be highlight reconstruction on the face.
Only thing I would do is put it through gimp to dodge the eyes to be lighter and possibly burn the hand a little. The fringing around the mask is an irrelevance when the whole image is dropped by 1/4 stop and as a “human” we look at eyes first and always think they are about 50% lighter than what is represented in a print. Everything is subjective, I would advise get the boy right with as much raw detail, put it through gimp or photoshop for the eyes and then mask the boy and pump the autumn colours up.
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