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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 18773" data-attributes="member: 654">Derrick, first let me welcome you to the Nikonites Community. You can help us to help you if you would complete your profile with a little info about yourself, your camera and the equipment you are using. That way we know who we are talking to and we can give more complete responses to your posts. That's a pretty good shot for a first time. Good composition. Getting a good exposure for a shot like this is difficult even for the most experienced photographer. Very good color in the sky. And the car lights streaking across the shot leads the eye right up to the sky. In your shot the foreground is a little too dark and needs more detail. There are two solutions. One is to take the shot when there is a little more sun light on the foreground. Not an easy task. Usually you will have just a minute or two when the light is exactly right to get a good light balance between the foreground and the sky. The other solution is to do a three shot HDR. Where you can get more detail in the foreground as well as in the sky. There are a lot of threads on this site on HDR shooting that you can find with a search. If you enjoy doing this type of shooting you can use the Photographers TPE to find times and locations for twilight, sunrise, sunset, as well as moon rise and set. Here is the link:<a href="http://photoephemeris.com/" target="_blank">http://photoephemeris.com/</a></blockquote>