Unedited
by Emerkaza

Comment:
To get those bright areas away you can use a ND filter, or multiple ND filters. You could wait until later in the day, if you wait until civil twilight you might get some nice moon light on the area. You could adjust your exposure comp to somewhere around -2 or less to remove the blown hightlights but in reality you want to have your histogram more towards the whites than the blacks. If you over expose the shot your more likely to edit it and bring them back/change the color vs under exposing it and losing all those pixels. I love the water shot but try shooting later in the day first.

One thing that was told to me was shoot the same thing from around the same general area 24 different times of the day. Doesn't need to me all on the same day but experiment with time of day, weather, tide, and so on. You will get a different shot each time.

Good luck, sorry I didn't post in the thread, I didn't read it all nor did I see other suggestions so excuse me if you have already found an anwser. Good luck

Australian Warrior
by Judi

Comment:
Well his hair is grungy for sure and it looks like he hasn't had a shower in sometime now. I love the idea that this story could go many different ways. These guys look pretty scary and I'm wondering if you were held captive against your will and looking to sacrifice your body or toss you into a fiery volcano to calm the gods.

On the other side of things, I've never really liked the flash on subject at night look just because the it never lights the entire image. But on the same note you didn't blow out any highlights with the flash so the amount of flash used to illuminate the subject is spot on. It also looks like you might have over sharpened this image too much, I guess to give it a more grungy look. Over all I give this shot a 7.

Weatherbeaten
by IreneM

Comment:
WOW Awesome shot...

The Forgotten One
by dsnider

Comment:
Great shot, this is pretty nasty - 10

Dare to Drink
by dirtythermos

Comment:
I'll pass on the drink but this is a great shot. Good work

Yuk!!!
by rrdjserv

Comment:
yuk is right

Ork
by kiwiness

Comment:
Great shot

Lost
by roby21112

Comment:
Looks like you went a little to far with the editing. IMO it takes away from your image.

Sin City
by ARMphoto

Comment:
Great photo

Mudpack
by MAK

Comment:
This is a pretty good picture. I like how clear and sharp it is.