Captical Tower

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thanks.

In answer to your question, to see more detail I think you would need to shoot much earlier in the evening. Usually the best results are obtained when there is still some colour in the sky and ambient lighting is roughly equal to the artificial lighting. Most night time shots you see are actually taking at dusk, within an hour of sunset. The window of afterlight is much shorter in tropical climes of course.

If the scan is from a print, I blame your printer. It seems as if the contrast range between the black (perimiter of building) and the lettering on the building is super far off! The lack of defintiton in the structure leads ones eyes to have a hard time determing what the object is, except for that there is the big sign on it. Or maybe the buidling really is that dark. But i doubt it. Theres almost always some natural light in big cities from other buildings, streetlights bouncing, cars, etc..