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The most noticeable thing missing from this shot is the services of a tripod.
Also, a lens with a wider max aperture could have helped to make the pedestrians a bit less blurry (e.g., Nikon's 50mm f/1.8, although that's a good deal longer than the focal length you used for this shot).
As for composition, the shot kinda lacks direction. My eyes aren't immediately drawn anywhere, so they sort of wander around like punk kids who skipped school but have nothing better to do. Next thing you know, my eyes will fall in with a bad crowd and start doing the mary-juanna. From there, it's just a few short steps to them knocking off liquor stores and getting in some serious trouble with the law. And I *need* my eyes. If my eyes are in jail, how will I look at pornography?
The point I'm trying to make is, the picture needs a more obvious subject. Me, I'd have moved it closer to the ground and right (though still angled to get the building in the upper left corner in the upper left corner). Then it's a shot of the people with the nighttime skyline in the background rather than a shot of nothing in particular.
But especially the tripod.
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