Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

shouldn't have made any difference as far as the lighting/exposure goes. i did have my polarizer on tho so the camera might have tried to over compensate because of it depending on what you were focusing/metering on. if it was a black car (pretty easy since it was the majority of the cars there), then it would blow out the picture trying to expose it to gray. keep in mind the camera doesn't know that a car is black, it just sees it as dark and underexposed. i shoot full manual for this reason. just start doing it more often and it will become second nature