New here, C&C please. =)

[Kengraphy]

On the image with the man you may consider doing a shot like that as an HDR image. These tend to be cartoony and frowned upon by many but if done properly they can look beautiful. Option 2 would be to eventually invest in a small radio triggered flash. Light the man with the flash to the same exposure as the wall. Last thing I have to say is if you go on another shoot like this I would invest in a cheap UV filter. Just to help get some of the haze out of a couple of the images.

But then again I'm a relative noob, so take this with a grain of salt.

Heres just a qucik very rough edit in photoshop that may give you something sortof like you were looking for.

I didn't carry a tripod with me, so it'd be a problem having do the auto bracketing for the HDR. I do have a UV filter on my lens, I think they are prolly Hoya filters, all that is written on it is raydawn UV.

The edited picture does look better than the original. Thanks for the edit!