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Tanner
October 15th, 2007, 21:14
Had the opportunity to take a good long look at an R8 without having a ton of people all around it. This was a press vehicle. Also got a ride in it, quite the car. It doesn't give you the sensation that you're actually traveling that fast when you're riding shotgun but it definitely eats up the corners with ease at high speed.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2347/1573489295_ba09b365dc_b.jpg
Damienr8
October 15th, 2007, 22:07
Good Picture, nice use of DOF to bring out the car.
HKS786
October 15th, 2007, 22:20
I never get fed up of looking at the R8, always looks so good !
nene
October 15th, 2007, 22:30
Now there's a car that seems to be traveling fast even when stopped.
It is a nice looking machine! Good shot.
Tanner
October 15th, 2007, 23:24
One more for you guys... took the DOF a little too extreme :)
http://static.flickr.com/2148/1574412020_30f8d1dad6_b.jpg
Benman
October 16th, 2007, 01:10
Love the 1st pic, excellent. Thx.:cheers:
Ben:addict:
RXBG
October 16th, 2007, 01:34
what does dof stand for?
rxbg = photo noob
KarlMarx
October 16th, 2007, 01:49
Distance Out of Focus?? Just guessing
HKS786
October 16th, 2007, 02:09
what does dof stand for?
rxbg = photo noob
depth of field:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field
Damienr8
October 16th, 2007, 16:07
depth of field:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field
The 2nd pic was metered flawlessly. Perfect Exposure. You an see the details in both the black and white areas very well.
+44 Dave
October 16th, 2007, 16:36
What are those bumpers on the front edges of the grille ?
We dont have those on European cars ? Are they owner added or do all American R8's have them ?
They look a bit shit to be honest let alone what they do for aerodynamics...
Great quality photography / editing though !
Ricoloco
October 16th, 2007, 17:16
White is a great color! Nice pics!
Speedou
October 16th, 2007, 17:31
Looks like toy car :D Very good looking!
Tanner
October 16th, 2007, 23:51
Thanks for the comments guys. Seen another one of these on the road, I had to drive by slowly to gawk at it again :)
The bumps you see on the front bumper is to make the car meet our 8km/h front impact collision requirements here in Canada. Judging from where these "tumours" are located, it's probably to ensure that the headlights remain functional in the event of a 8km/h (or less) collision. TT has them also. Really messes up the looks unfortunately.
Cargo8
October 17th, 2007, 01:56
wow. so nice.
that second one almost looks like a toy car. crazy pictures man. love it
Mori
October 17th, 2007, 20:51
One more for you guys... took the DOF a little too extreme :)
What lens and camera did you use?
Edit:
Wow those bumper addons suck big time. Ugh.
Tanner
October 18th, 2007, 03:14
First one, Sigma 70-200EX (200mm, F5.6), and the second one with an 85 1.8 wide open.
Yeah those bumper add-ons sucks, but guess it's better than having no R8 here.
PS. One thing I haven't mentioned is that with these lenses alone, you really can't get this shallow DOF with the whole car in frame. So the trick I use... set the exposure, focus manually and set the shutter speed and the appropriate aperture. Then take a lot of photos of the cars and surroundings at a close range. At such range, the whole car cannot fit in the frame, so quite a few photos were taken. It's like a jigsaw puzzle, take all of the images and use something like autostitch to combine all of the individual images into one. The first image with the barn is actually a crop of this one:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2342/1583294523_e38455b303_b.jpg
Largest I could stitch without the program puking on me is 53MP!
Roger_35
October 18th, 2007, 19:49
Any chance for more photos? Interior may be and on the road?
I smell You are making fools of ourselves...
audi713
October 19th, 2007, 23:03
nice pic! should have one like that with the LED on :love:
Tanner
October 19th, 2007, 23:47
I was close to bringing the stickpod and had ideas to take a photo with the camera facing to the back with the engine bay in view and the road blurring away, but not sure why i decided not to do that. Oh well, so no photos of it on the road.
Some more... hope nobody's on dialup!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2319/1573038167_f532556b40_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/1573931584_14acbae8de_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2392/1573930482_734c27ff8d_b.jpg
Car wasn't washed at all unfortunately.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/1573040123_ef2da32df3_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2065/1573040657_b7afdd3e9d_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2135/1573041125_6d2152da22_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2156/1573928962_ca0a9ce766_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/1573931584_14acbae8de_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2106/1573044863_c1f9e13010_b.jpg
Never got around to fixing the white balance on this...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2216/1573045925_830510da6e_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2133/1573933914_6e59e5c343_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2374/1573047209_1b34fc80db_b.jpg
audipassion
October 20th, 2007, 04:16
what a very beautiful photos!
AU-297
October 20th, 2007, 05:14
Those are awesome... I have a Ibis TT and it's an awesome color... just a pain to keep clean!
Yahh
October 21st, 2007, 01:13
Your are teh photo God! :bow:
Very VERY nice!