Thanks for the critique Ozzloaf. Much appreciated
So that you know, everything I did with respect to the lighting in the image was intentional and thought out ahead of time.

I wanted a strong backlight to contrast the siloquette of the bodies as well as the guys in the band to have what appeared to be a soft single light on each of their faces to give a strange look to the image. I blurred the background to give more emphasis to them.
I still need to calibrate my monitor. I think the reason your seeing the sharp edges are because your monitor is brighter than mine. This image was done in a matter of two hours and I didn't bother to check the image before saving so things like the hard edge may show for some and not for others. Thanks for bringing that up.
I agree the scratches would definitely look nicer if they were sharper. I tried overlaying them on the faces but it took away from them. The idea originally was to make it look like an old photo. I'm still not finish so I may go back and fix that. I'll just create a better scratch texture that is sharper and can work as a complete overlay.
I actaully work professionally as a concept artist and 3d character artist. :zombie: Here is some more older stuff. Sorry the other two and the top one here are so small and grainy looking, the originals are pretty big and I had to scan them in by sections

. The other two are digital obviously.