My first try at night time photos

Trying to learn how to take night time photos. I took about 10 different photos of the capital building. This is the one that turned out the best. I really don't have a clue what I am doing. Just read different posts and kinda tried to learn from that. What can I do to make this turn out better. Seems like the street lights are to bright.

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

Crop out the street light on the left and that will be an amazing shot. I hardly even notice the smaller street lights. There's not much you can do about them anyway

It looks like you got the idea down. Lowest ISO you can use and self timer to avoid camera shake. The rest is trial and error and you will find what works best for you.

The best time for "Night time" pics like that, is BEFORE it gets totally dark, so you have some light in the sky & the contrast range is smaller.
Try it on some buildings at home & you'll see what I mean. Shoot a pic every 5-10 minutes for an hour, STARTING 1/2 hour before sunset.

You can also try using f/8 and then you will get a different effect from the
light sources.

Thank you for your imput. I went back downtown last night and took some more photos. Went up to f8 and seem to be a little better. A little more sharp. I did not make it down there before dark though. I am going to try that to.

Here is one I took the other night...
https://photography-on-the.net …topic.php?p=268​180#268180