Hi Edu,
Thanks for the up's on the light & dark areas, I'll pay more attention to it.
I have attached the image I began with as a starting point for you to understand what work has been done.
I hadn't taken multiple exposures for the image, the final shot was a product from one photograph. I believe my phrasing was incorrect on the post.
Using the single image, I was able to produce three different exposures which I manually fused using Photoshop.
I then applied luminosity masks to it and gave it a subtle punch.
( really like your work btw. )
I was quite excited about getting this form of a result from a single image and thought I'd share and get opinions.
Rahim.