WarlockTry taking out all of your global lighting completely and replace with varied lights in the locations of the explosions and weapons that are firing,..this would really enhance the over all look of the render.
By the way I don't know whether you actually know or not but the way I made this image didn't exactly use standard techniques and it was mostly done in PS6, just the model rendered with no special fx in TS5 by a friend. I know the lighting needs work but I actually overlapped the ship to brighten up the window part because it was really really dark, I just thought it might look better if the ship was visible unless I put a son in perhaps or another ship firing their beam canon I could add in another light source that would have reason behind it but that won't happen for a long time...
I did use Adobe Photoshop 6 for just about everything, now I'm too busy to use the program. Thanks for the tips, I will considered them for future use...