dlmorris wrote:
I would use a tripod (though I have taken plenty without one), and as others have suggested, experiment with exposures. Manual focus, probably. One thing I am going to try is to take some exposures before it gets completely dark, so that there is still some light on the house and the ground. Don't know how that is going to work, though...
It will work pretty good. In fact some of the better pictures I have seen were taken at dusk.