Yes you have, it’s just like dusk photography but later 
Set the compensation to +2 EV and measure for the brightest lights you can find. in this case, the funnel on the cruise liner was blown to smithereens and would have been an excellent target but compensated at only +1 EV to make sure that the blue wasn’t burnt out.
The idea of the compensation is to place the lights somewhere between 0 EV and +2 EV, depending on how bright a white you want it to appear.
Have you lost that nice new tripod already? 
Never judge exposure on the Live View screen. It is based on a JPEG rendering constructed by the camera.
Yup.
Are you sure about that? 
Don’t forget to do your metering before you finally put the camera on the tripod in case the brightest lights are not in shot.
That’s because you were using HEZM (human eye zoom mode) when you were looking at the scene. You know, that mode where your eye zooms into an object and your brain tries to convince you that it really can look bigger and more detailed than the dozen or so pixels you really know it will end up being in the final shot 
Nah! Just pick up all your other camera gear and throw it into the Bay. Why bother with all that complicated calculation and post-processing stuff when Apple can do it all for you?
The only trouble is, I can’t decide whether I’m being serious about that or not 
On the other hand, it didn’t take much to get somewhere near the iPhone look and feel - even the blimp is more obvious…
