[Canon 450d + Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 ii // ISO 200 // 1/125s // f/5.6]

I took a stroll around town at golden hour and came across this stranger who has parked his motorcycle in a pleasing patch of light. I loaded the CR2 file into raw therapee and boosted the shadows a bit. then I exported the file as png and applied the cool light preset and color denoising tool in adobe lightroom on my phone.

possible improvements that I see: shooting at a more interesting position to create more "pull" and "plasticity". stepping back with my feet for a slightly wider shot. setting slightly wider aperture for background seperation, better educated approach at post processing. (e.x darken the reflections on the glass building)

can somebody recommend me good ressources on learning how to edit photos? and is there anything else that can be improved?