Light Trails.

Yesterday was the trade day at Autosport show, on the way home it was getting dark so since I didn't take many photographs at the show itself, I thought i'd take full advantage of the motorway and my camera.

I haven't long had my Nikon D7000 which meant that I hadn't fully figured it out just yet. I've worked with it manually for the waterscapes, with keeping the shutter open longer, but with that I had filters to help. Being at the show I kept my equipment to a minimum as for carrying it around all day, which meant no suitable filter.

For some reason whenever i'm shooting in shutter priority mode, no matter the setting, all I get is a black image. So for these 2 photographs I shot in Aperture priority mode.

The settings were trial and error, as for each shot was different from the amount of light in the photo, amount of cars and as to how dark it was quickly getting.

I really like the above image, for how some of the cars are almost transparent from the movement, and how most cars are still visible but yet the light trails are enough from the car lights and the lights on the motorway. I'd love to try this in daylight with the appropriate filters to see what effect I would achieve.

This photo really stands out to me, I'm dissapointed in the quality, but i'm impressed with the small light trail from the oncoming cars. With having no cars in front or passing it allowed for a different style of image, which to me stands out just as much as the one above. The blur of the surrounding trees/hedges is really effective for how it frames the image, along with the clear lines from the road.
This was definitely a trial and error technique, but with perseverance the right image can be found :)