I used a tripod, and as the above poster said, shoot manual, I cant find my raw setting so I shot everything in "normal" mode versus vivid/more vivid, took it and adjusted the saturation and contrast on photoshop, maybe a bit too much saturation, but it looks much better then my other shots from before! that being said it is much more true to the light and color after I made the adjustments, maybe a bit more blue, but truer none the less.
here is before
and after
