Much better. The face is rich in response, the three fingers are clearly seen, and the meaningless sky and boat siding are reduced to panels that frame the subject and draw the eye across it.
Much stronger, but make larger so detail can be seen. You took two steps forward by cropping it dynamically and lightening the face, and then one step back by sizing it too small for the detail in that face to work. (Probably an oversight.)
This could be cropped longer and narrower. You don't need all that white sky and all of that gray wall. The story is the man's expression and those three fingers. Add detail to the face and remove the distraction at far left. See how you like it, Kal.
