Looks like there's too much contrast. No depth or apparent lighting. Doesn't really have flow either. Look in the tut section for those things. KIU
Hey blizzardDesigns, I believe the contrast you see is in the rendered image Waparo described in his post. Well Waparo. i actually do see some depth and flow. Some suggestions I can mention is to create the effects you developed a tad brighter and maybe blend some of those effects to the rendered Bane image.
Well you may think it has no depth, but there is definitely some depth in some areas and it could really be improved. Even though it is a render and a textured background, you could see in the low and high intensity colors used in the bg and the render. (even though he did not create the image) C'mon Man, you post something that only focus on what he did bad and did not lay any single thing he did good. Most of the contrast comes mainly from the render so you can not say it has to much contrast if it comes entirely from the picture he chose.