Evening Shots Cardiff Bay

My friends were lighting up the welsh assembly buildings and said I would go and take some photos. So here it is, still learning alot about shooting at night! I am finding getting correct exposure difficult with out over or under exposing the artificial light.

Comments and critique welcome, as I am not sure about the sharpness of the image across the water in the first one.

Water *1
Building *2

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Hi Matthew,

You've removed EXIF data so we can't see what camera settings you used, making it harder to suggest alternatives.

Both have a very severe colour cast... dominates everything. Compositionally, #1 has the subject centred, which doesn't tend to work too well, and there's a lot of dead space above and below. A 60 second edit:

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Hi thanks for the feedback,

I havent deliberately removed the data it was just putting the rubbish water mark! It was shot at f8, but I can't remember the shutter, ISO100. I have done no HDR, and have been using the bracketing. I agree the colour cast is ridiculously strong, but was using AWB as I wasn't sure how best to set it under those conditions. I am finding it difficult to know where I am meant to be metering my exposure from?

I think I will have to start shooting raw from now on as I do not wanna lose future shots.

Many thanks,

Matt