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Well ... it is YOUR image @ YOUR message.
So, while Karen & I may have gravitated toward the hikers, that doesn't mean you can't steer your image in the direction AWAY from the hikers. As always, your pic, your message ... and as is the case with many a good capture, one can often times successfully take it in more than one message direction.
That said, I'm curious now to see how you'll adjust to reflect it toward YOUR message. As to the clouds ... mostly a gamma adjustment via levels (and some masking to restrict it).
As to the title ... it really didn't factor in for me. Actually, I had to revisit it to try and understand the correlation. For me, the title suggests that the hikers have arrived at a location to begin setting up camp, just before they lose their precious light to work in.
As to the broader perspective of the light ... you may have to clone out the hikers if you want it to be just about the play of light / dark ... or make some tonal value adjustments that render their shape and tonal contrast a bit less stark for grabbing the eye.
Noting how my eye was initially pulled AWAY from them in the color version, the eye / mind responds to varying degrees of contrast (i.e. things that are different). Those can come in the form of line, shape, hue, saturation, tone, scale, mass, order, symmetry, etc. ... just how slowly or rapidly the transitions might be from one to another will have impact on the amount of "pull" the contrast(ing elements) will have to draw the eye of your viewer.
HTH ... and again, nice capture. S&P to taste @ your image, your message, your call. Looking forward to seeing more.
Also, like Jeff (thx, btw) ... I was glad to see you didn't try to HDR / lift shadows heroically (I'm having a Deja Vu, atm ... have we been here before).
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