I took a few pix last night with a friend, and after looking at them closely on the comp and showing a friend, they have some lighting issues. Example
Foreground is a bit dark, background glares (City Hall, Comcast Building, lights on the parkway, other bright objects).
Here is another one
I used the curve tool is PS to brighten it up a bit but it doesnt help much, you can still tell its kinda dark, and grainy on the nose of the car from when i tried to curve it.
My question is, is there a cheap tool to do "spot" lighting. I was thinking of perhaps some kind of bulb to mount on top of the camera that I can swivel around and focus lighting on a certain part of the picture, hence not having these issues, and be able to lower exposure a bit to get less glare??