The nearly full moon illuminates the flags flapping in the breeze along the Potomac in Georgetown. I took a bunch of shots here w/my camera resting on a concrete pillar to stabilize it. I was playing with the manual exposure settings to see how much difference they made. This was at 1 second and it seems to have produced the best balance between brightness and clarity of detail (as you can see from the sharpness of the light pole).

This photo was pretty dark but when I imported it into iPhoto and hit the “enhance” button, this is what happened. I think iPhoto turned up the exposure and sharpness to brighten the image, but it also sort of blew it out and made it grainy so it almost looks like a painting or a cheap reproduction of a painting (b/c of the dot screen pattern). At least I think that's what it looks like. I could be crazy.

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Flash used: No
Focal length: 15.4mm (35mm equiv.: 78mm)
Exposure time: 1.000 s
Aperture: f/4.0
Exposure bias: 2.00