Photography After Dark

Night time photography is something that has always fascinated me.
Browse through Flickr or any other photo hosting website,input the words "night time photography", and it opens up thousands of shots taken after dark.It's a whole new world.

Now considering that next weekend Winter time officially begins,we in Ireland will have a lot more "after dark" hours to occupy us.
So with this in mind I took the camera for a spin last evening/night to Inch and onword to Ballycotton.The moon was fairly full and the skys were clear.

My thinking here was that the moonlight should give me some illumination ,so I could experiment a little.
I had a quick look at Peter Cox site, where he give a primer on Night time photography.
Now I'm a complete novice when it comes to shooting after dark, so, if anyone has any hints or tips, please pass them along.
So without further ado , here are a few results.....

First up Inch Bay, about 40 mins after Sundown, there was still a little afterglow in the western skys...

15secs @f10 ISO 100

Next up Ballycotton, and a shot I tried to get a while back, with limited success.....

30 secs @f4 ISO 200

This one is partially lit by the moon , as you can see it was high and to camera left.

I wasn't entirely happy with this, so I lowered the WB and this was the result......

30 Secs @f4 ISO 200, WB Lower in ACR to 3000k

 Next up was the area nearer the Lighthouse........

This was taken at 30secs @f4.5 ISO 640

And Lastly a few of the Lighthouse and Ballycotton Island

8 Secs @f4 ISO 200

8 Secs @ f4 ISO 200

One final thought,

Because of the high ISO settings on some of the shots,there tends to be some noise in the unprocessed shots,There are various tools to help with this ,but my favorite one is "Noiseware Professional", from a company called Imagenomic.