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Originally Posted by DiD
Paging Hafid: suggestions welcome for driving cars into the frame without overexposing the headlights so much. Have driven a car through the frame and parked it away from the city lights before? Advice welcome.
Part of the problem for me with photo 2 as well is that I feel I needed a second person there tonight to help out. Since I had to drive the car into the frame and fire off the flash, that resulted in a couple of problems: 1) the car wasn't in the frame long enough and appears transparent in places. 2) the dome light shows up. 
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I think #1 looks quite good. #2 has the problems you mention but I think the idea is good. Turning off the dome light would help, as you say. I'm trying to understand why the car looks transparent. The longer it's parked there relative to the total exposure time the more solid it should appear, so it seems like having to spend more time getting out of the car and walking around wouldn't have hurt.
As for the headlights, hmmm. Smaller aperture and longer exposure would dim the "driving in" lights and keep the parked car exposure the same. ND filter during the drive-in and then removed for the rest of the exposure? Or, driving in faster?
Cool star trail shot! It would be fun to get complete arcs but that takes a much longer exposure--difficult with a digital--and a really dark sky.
Mark
