Thank you everybody... I have so much to learn and really do appreciate your feedback.. Kenneth, I need to learn more about the editing software I suppose to apply what you're telling me... Taking all of this on board and hopefully it will click with me one day.
Those shots haven't had any editing and to answer the question, What was I looking for, I suppose I thought it would have been less shadows and lit better. I wasn't sure about the lamplights.....although, I liked it, I wasn't sure it would fly as a good photo...lol
One more quick question.... Does it stand to reason, if I were shooting a city with more lighting, giving the sky a city glow (for lack of a better way of putting it) would it have mattered about me standing in such low light?
I wondered about the cars/movement/lights if that should be an issue... I suppose it is what the individual wants, right?
I'm such the beginner and I'm sure these questions are really lame, so forgive me for that. I see I've made another blooper on another thread about HDR and thinking I was using it...LOL OOPS!
Thanks again.... And the photo of the Bay Bridge! AWESOME! Just beautiful! I could see that on my wall!