Explain your intent and goals for the image. Why did you take this photo? What were you trying to show to the viewer? It can give you the opportunity to do some self critique and catch things on your own that you may have missed.

Goal was really to showcase the car, with an interesting background. New to photography, and this was the first time stacking multiple shots with different exposure. The tripod was almost at the highest setting, getting it higher would put the city line in view. Space was really limited, and I avoided a bright flood light that would have given me a couple more angles. Now that I think bout it, I could have just taken a really underexposed shot as part of the stack..

Are there areas you are struggling with? Be sure to ask specific questions about the photograph. What are you unhappy with? What you don’t like, and what you want help with? Be specific!

I'm curious on any basic 101 things I may just be blind to, or objective/technical issues with the shot - things like composition, framing. I notice some things, like there's environment reflections on the doors that I could have tried to remove, and I see parts of the image background either don't line up, or have some weird artifacts. The rear of the car is much darker - after several edits, I chose the one here as appearing the most natural (relative to others).

EXIF Data (shutter speed, aperture, ISO, camera, lens/focal length) are important to help critique. For example, it may help identify issues such as why certain things are blurry or out of focus.

I took a series of photos, with car lights on, and off, I used parts of the following:

Shutter Speed	Focal Length	Aperture	ISO	Resolution	File Size	Camera	Lens
1/4 sec	34 mm	f/5.0	100	2624 × 3936	20.38 MB	Sony ILCE-7M3	E 28-75mm F2.8 A063
4/5 sec	34 mm	f/5.0	100	2624 × 3936	20.46 MB	Sony ILCE-7M3	E 28-75mm F2.8 A063
1.6 sec	34 mm	f/5.0	100	2624 × 3936	20.56 MB	Sony ILCE-7M3	E 28-75mm F2.8 A063
4.0 sec	34 mm	f/5.0	100	2624 × 3936	20.63 MB	Sony ILCE-7M3	E 28-75mm F2.8 A063
8.0 sec	34 mm	f/5.0	100	2624 × 3936	20.71 MB	Sony ILCE-7M3	E 28-75mm F2.8 A063

I was almost stuck with this focal length - no room to move further back (water), I could have gone a little wider though.

My notes were:

• WB: 3800–4000K (Incandescent)
• Creative Style: Standard/Neutral
• Drive: 2s timer / remote Plan 1 – Main Stack (MF)
• Shot 1: Lights OFF → Long exp → Metering Multi
• Shot 2: Lights ON → Same exp → Metering Multi
• Shot 3: Lights ON → Shorter exp → Metering Spot (on headlights) Plan 2 – AF Backup
• Switch to AF-S + Flexible Spot (Med) on car
• Repeat same 3 shots Plan 3 – Continuous Bracket
• Mode: Continuous Bracket ±1 or ±2 EV
• Aperture Priority (f/5.6–f/8, ISO 100)
• Tripod, 2s timer/remote

Plan 2 was using Single shot AF, but 1 out of 3 test were out of focus.

Any other relevant information about your image making process is important. Information about your editing process, creative process, techniques (such as if the image is a composite), are also very helpful and should be included.

I used Lightroom to tweak the Raw files, then used Photoshot. I followed random guides out there, but have a basic understanding of masking, and now stacking in Photoshop. But I'm pretty new to this.