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Anonymous
Any advice for the next time I go out to do this kind of shot?
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>> Anonymous
Longer exposure. Find more traffic. Best single shots come from dark areas where you let the moving lights do all the exposure, not any stationary street lights.

You can do it with a well lit city shot, but you'll need a double exposure. One long exposure with little light coming through and you block the lens if there aren't cars, so only the bright tail and head lights print and the ambient light doesn't. Then you shoot the city with an overexposure for a short time to fill in the details that don't get hit by the headlights.

Longer the better.