Well, Dave, that made me LOL in the office (where laughing out loud, while alone in front of a computer, doesn't bode well for one's office cred
)
But on a serious note: "too tight" meant that the main subject is framed so, without the room to breathe. I can only assume, by whatever little is visible outside of the S-bend, that the surrounding environment was nothing to write home about, thus justifiably excluded and leaving the S-bend as the main subject.
However, there is a fly in that ointment: if the S-bend is to be the main subject visually and graphically, not just traffic-control wise, it has to be simplified and stripped of anything superfluous to that intention.
A long shutter speed would have accomplished that, making the S even more visually striking, with the beautiful red S and yellow S underscoring the bend.
The choice of shutter speed used was unfortunate: short enough to make some license plates readable (good if the intention was forensic photography), but long enough to annoyingly blur some cars at the edges of the frame. Then again, not sufficiently long either to deliver the above described light streaks effect.
Long enough now (the critique, not shutter speed)?
