Jack_Keaka wrote:those street lights are WAY too overpowering.
Must say, street lights / flood lights are usually a photographers worst enemy with automotive photography. I think you need to find somewhere a bit darker away from light sources, and create your own light. Light painting is pretty hard.
Here's pretty much one of the very very few photos of my own that has street lights in it that i think actually works: (apart from the over exposed licence plate light)
11879205_10206092864013481_6607391474762394330_o by Jackson Moss, on Flickr
I hear what you're saying Jack but I actually did that on purpose as I wanted to add another element to the shot. Otherwise it would be a massive expanse of building up top which is plain, and then car in the lower half of the shot. I like lens flare personally. This was my first attempt at light box painting. Yes it was hard and yes I didnt have the right equipment. But meh...I gave it a shot.