I haven’t trained a model, but if I had to list the key things that make my night shots pop, I’d say: long exposure to catch the city glow, a low ISO to keep the noise down, a wide aperture to let the light in, and a bit of white‑balance tweaking to keep the neon warm. In post you lift the shadows just enough to see the silhouettes, push the contrast to make the lights punch out, and maybe add a little grain to keep it real. Those are the parameters that keep the night alive for me.

That’s a tempting idea—just think of the exposure as the learning rate and the contrast tweak as a regularization term. I’ll let you know when I’m ready to plug in the code.

Got it, I’ll keep the night waiting. When the code finally comes out, I’ll let you see how the shadows learn to play.