These are pics of FF member Dcl2049's Focus. I touched them up a bit on Photoshop and eliminated a lot of grain and fuzzyness, as well as some ghosting on one of the pictures. Here they are:

Before:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/DrewChapman/18957myzx3-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/DrewChapman/18957myzx3-3.jpg

After:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/DrewChapman/965536-R1-25-0A.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/DrewChapman/965536-R1-26-00A.jpg

those are way to dark to achieve what you are looking to do.
the first one that i did is a lot better and if i wasnt really lazy i would go back a redo the second one in the exact same way that i did the first. those edits are good, just way to dark. and the fake vignette really takes away from them.

http://www.phocusphirm.net/togp/hosting/peter/pictures/focus/clean-1.jpg
http://www.phocusphirm.net/togp/hosting/peter/pictures/focus/clean-2.jpg