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Hi Maria:

This is beautiful. I know that your interests are mainly achitecture and the exposures for the buildings are great. I think you also have captured a scene in the foreground that is also interesting. Would you consider brightening the  foreground a bit?

Thanx and Regards, John.

Hi Maria:

I forgot to mention that I saw your other photo that does show part of this scene in far more light. However, I ask if you would consider brightening the foreground scene in this photo? I believe it would actually supplement the magnificent architecture.

Regards, John

Great architecture, well balanced composition, technically very well done! Bravo Maria!

Best regards!

PDE

In difficult light as here you should shoot in RAW mode (NEF in your new camera, Nikon D3000?) for much better control and adjustments, but even your JPG can easily be improved, at least if you're using PhotoShop. Just google luminosity mask.

My old camera also had RAW, but I don't know how to switch to that. With the Nikon I thought that it is saving in both modes, but it doesn't.

I recommend you to read the manual more carefully. To your problem: open the menu, select Shooting Menu and there Image quality. Now you find the RAW+Fine option, which I would prefer (and use myself constantly) - not knowing how you work your original image files.

PS In your comment you thought I am Estonian... no, I'm Finn and live in Helsinki.