View attachment 62844 Night Nantong (China), 07-2015, 18 by Vlad Meytin, on Flickr Vlad M. My Instagram | My Facebook | www.vladsm.com
I like it! It makes me think of a sci-fi vehicle (levitation). Some of the architecture helps in that appearance too.
Was there only one car that passed by in the 82 seconds of exposure? And was there any foot traffic while this was going on? It seems odd that in a place like China the street (?) was so 'empty', but maybe the exposure time allowed their 'removal'.
Tom, I often take pics at night and if it's not Shanghai or Beijing (I work in China now) it's quite often to see practically empty streets (Chinese are workaholics and need to rest before the next working day so they go home early), although I admit I specifically look for such spots in the cities at night when I don't want people in particular views; see it for yourself in my night pictures taken in Nantong at www.vladsm.com - 80% of the night shots are people-less; and yes you're correct, if anyone would be there long exposure would do the trick so no one would be in the pictures. I remember there were a few cars and I took lots of pictures before I got satisfied with the traces, its colors and so on (for ex. I didn't want any red traces in the shot so it took me an hour actually, take exposure time into consideration), even knowing that I'll do some PP anyway to emphasize what I wanted and needed.
Now, given your settings, even at f16, as I am one that also does long exposure photography, is that moon a composite? As it should have blown out easily being such a bright object.
There is quite a bit of PS in this apart from the composited moon. If you look at the bottom quarter of the photo you can see a lot of duplication from cloning. Still, it is a great photo.
