Although the vantage point was right, I end up feeling as if the shot itself is not right in the first place. Here’s what I did with it:
P1073502.RW2 (16.4 MB)
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Hi there, this is my very first attempt (at least since I have memory 
) to play on someone else raw so here my result.
I liked the general appeal of the photo, it’s softness and colors but I couldn’t say for sure what the main subject was so:
- cropped to remove left side objects that were stealing my attention and give the child a more relevant position
- tuned a bit perspective due to all these lines in the composition
- white calibration as it seemed to cold to me
- pushed up a bit those nice colors
- added just a few of contrast on edges
- denoised to have smoother surfaces to counter-balance ISO 1600
- worked
P1073502.RW2.xmp (9.4 KB)
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I wanted to apply some sort of artistic filter to the image. DT 5.5
P1073502.RW2.xmp (17.2 KB)
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Thanks for this nice photograph @Sai_Deepak!
I must confess that at first I did not feel like taking part in this play-raw at all as I could not connect to the picture. I saw the loneliness of the boy of course. But also a - in my first impression - very cluttered picture. I simply did not know what to do with it.
Somehow I followed the others playing around. And today I decided to develop as I thought was best. My, that did not work out at all! I had chosen a vast crop - to get ‘rid’ of ‘clutter’. Gone was the beauty of the picture.
So after some trial and error this is my result. I started to love the picture better every time I took a ‘wrong’ turn. I even tried to retouch out smaller parts. Did not work out as well. 
P1073502.RW2.xmp (81.6 KB)
Straightened lines
Emphasized the saturated colors of the play-tools
Left soft tones soft
Enhanced contrast except for the boy
Cropped a bit
Bits of local contrast
Framed
Thanks and hope you like it.
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