Over Exposed

Long exposure sometimes lead to overexposed subject. To make sure the foreground and star trails appear is quite hard especially when there is a source light coming from the subject. It is a little bit over exposed but still maintain its shapes and so reveal the subject with the star trail as background. This photo is a result of 10 stack photos with approximately 1 minutes exposure for each take. 

Star Trail

My attempt to photograph the star trail with the pine tree as foreground subject is near a failure due to small movement of the tree branches. I should find something more stable but looks nature. The polluted skies makes it even harder to get a good lighting and perfect ambient. Camera setting is ISO100, F3.5 ;18mm focused at infinity. 

X-Trail Marks The Trail