Post Processing:
Channel Mixer: 85/50/-33
Curves1 (bumping shadows, reducing highlights)
Curves2 (heavy contrast)
HSL for the colour tone.
resize
USM: I think: 0,4/500/0 or thereabouts, so as to push the noise.
Statistics
Place: 47 out of 399 Avg (all users): 6.1319 Avg (commenters): 8.7500 Avg (participants): 6.0455 Avg (non-participants): 6.2639 Views since voting: 880 Views during voting: 261 Votes: 182 Comments: 11 Favorites: 2 (view)
How the hell did this get less than mine? Oh yeah, that's right, the freaks that voted 2s and 3s. Ruddy @#$@#!! They should all #$@$%@&* and have their @#$@!# cut off....
Effective sense of movement in the image. Also the 4 people on the left appear focused on the out-thrust arm of the other man, which effectively fixes the viewer's eyes on the main subject/main source of movement. The graininess doesn't detract/distract but adds to the drama of the moment.