Beautiful pictures Paul. Perhaps you can give me some tips once I learn more about using my new camera.
Just mash on buttons until something good comes out then repeat.
I cut my teeth in film where every lesson or mistake took days to learn as you sent the film out to be developed and tried to remember what you did to the lens' aperture and the shutter. Now I get feed back on a little 3" screen and all the settings are in the metadata to be reviewed later on the big screens to see what works.
Since there was a nice cloud overcast and cooler temperatures I knew is was going to be a clear but dark night (knight?). Bust out the tripod and have some fun with the manual settings on the camera. I had the ISO, or "film speed" cranked down to 200 and all the way up to 6400. At 400 and 800 there was near zero noise. At 1600 enough to notice but still better than most cameras. At 3200 and 6400 the noise was pretty clear. From there I went back down to 200 ISO and started under exposing the pictures a stop at a time until I got some dramatic lighting effects.
