Every time I have tried to take pics at night they turn out like total crap. I was trying to get some pics for the current photo contest and needed to do it at night and actually got some decent pictures. I used a small tripod that screws into the bottom of my camera and used the 2 second time delay so the camera would be perfectly still when it took the shot and keep the light from streaking and blurring. It worked much better than any other attempt at shooting at night so I was happy with it. I don't have an excellent camera, its a NIkon coolpix s600, good enough for what I typically need it for but might invest in something nicer soon.
Here are a few of the better ones.





Pic came out good but the 3'rd brake is a little overpowering with all those led's in there, lol

 

cool pics man

 

that first one is awesome actually, i think ive found my new backround

 

Thanks, that's the petro canada oil refinery in the background. Going to go out again one night this week and get some with the river and downtown, now that I can take decent pictures at night.

Any suggestions of things i can try out or settings on my camera (Have just been using the default night landscape setting and haven't gotten into the technical stuff yet) I can play with to help out with night photography would be great!

 

That's really cool looking, nice pics.

 

Those are soooo cool. 5th is my favorite

 

Those turned out cool, I love messing around with the tripod for night shots.

 

sick pics man!

 

nice pics, they look great

 

Thanks everybody, I am happy that i managed to pull off some nice pics at night for once! going to have to go out one night again soon and find another cool place to get some shots!