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Originally Posted by msafiedin
maybe the tripod was one of the biggest factor
coz i think i did use the manual focus to adjust the sharpness of the street light
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The tripod was needed so that you could set the aperture higher - F22 is a great suggestion.
The focus on your camera cannot focus on everything. You must focus on your main subject, then using a high F-stop, you are using a higher depth of field and therefore more distance is in focus.
In your case you wanted to focus on an object in the middle of your focus range and let the depth of field take care of the rest.
This link explains depth of field better than I ever could -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field