One of the tricks I used when I had an older camera (and my new one still isn't back YET!) was to use a lot of Shadow. People were WOW'ed by my night pictures, but the shadow and dark colors masked the fact that the pixel density and gradient was crap! In bright sunlight it is easy to pick apart every little error, but in night shots, if you can't make out what something is, it adds an aire of mystery!


Hope that helped!