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Old 01-13-2019, 05:10 AM
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Launch year and color


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Old 01-13-2019, 05:41 AM
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@Paul champagne No, we don't have this kind of gatherings. Maybe in the area of Amterdam. But they keep it low profile since befor you know they spread it with FB and thousands show up.

@JIMLIGHTA Nice pics ! So the car is orange, its not the sunset making a red car appear to be orange ?
 
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Old 01-13-2019, 05:43 AM
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Looks like Firesand to me, Dan. Lovely colour.
 
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Old 01-13-2019, 06:16 AM
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@scm .Yes, I expected it to be. But looking at the background with the orange glow, who knows. But the side of the car with the sparkling is a kind-of-a tell-tale for orange indeed.
And the red calipers, they are clearly red. No orange glow masking so !
 
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Old 01-13-2019, 06:26 AM
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@EJag66 No 'go-faster' stripes on the centre line of the FT ?

btw : love the looks of the orange coupe ; it keeps the Britisch Heritage tradition of marking its turf...
Not orange, Signal Red.
 
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Old 01-13-2019, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Dan_NL
@Paul champagne No, we don't have this kind of gatherings. Maybe in the area of Amterdam. But they keep it low profile since befor you know they spread it with FB and thousands show up.

@JIMLIGHTA Nice pics ! So the car is orange, its not the sunset making a red car appear to be orange ?
Yes, it is stock Firesand. The awesome thing about Firesand is the color shifting with low angle Sun. Digital cameras tend to exagerate effect, but it still manages to look even better in person.

The drawback is that Firesand can look dull without direct Sunlight hitting metalic flakes, which is maybe 60% of the time, obviously depending on where you live and when you drive.

Sadly, the car is filthy dirty, as you can see on the side splitters. The Sunset wouldn't wait.
 

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Old 01-13-2019, 09:53 AM
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..look dull without direct Sunlight hitting metalic flakes, which is maybe 60% of the time, obviously depending on where you live and when you drive..
Thats exactly why I didn't get the Loire Blue or BRG metallic : they are so near-black that in the weather type we have here, it would 80% of the time look like a shade of grey...
 
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Old 01-13-2019, 11:55 AM
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Those colours are great for getaway cars (which Jags traditionally were!) - all those witnesses arguing over what the colour was!
 
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Old 01-13-2019, 12:15 PM
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.. all those witnesses arguing over what the colour was!
"..kind of reddish.." , covers it all...
 
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Always wanted to do a moving shot, but it takes two (or more) and a lot planning. I decided to fake it with Photoshop.
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After a bunch of Photoshop work:



Not perfect, but I enjoy doing this. When working in Photoshop, I get to "stare" at my car, without standing and actually staring at the car

I need to get a better camera...
 
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Old 01-14-2019, 04:23 AM
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I think you only succeed in making 'look alike' shots from magaizne's WITH photoshop ! I give you the example of my CCTV shots which are 2K but ofcourse the field-of-view is bigger then the car.
You need a highspeed camera and a LOT of light to allow for a short shutter opening, and you have the camera along with the car, all not so easy as a 'still'...


 
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Old 01-14-2019, 06:02 AM
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Ah but Dan, your CCTV camera isn't panning with the car, so it shows the car blurred. Panning with the car blurs the background, nothing to do with Photoshop, but with camera technique. And a fast shutter speed will "freeze" the motion so isn't what you want at all.
 

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Old 01-14-2019, 08:53 AM
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Ah but Dan, your CCTV camera isn't panning with the car, so it shows the car blurred. Panning with the car blurs the background, nothing to do with Photoshop, but with camera technique.
And a fast shutter speed will "freeze" the motion so isn't what you want at all.
Indeed, the CCTV does not pan. But panning with the car ánd using a high shutterspeed will make the body of the car focused, and the wheels and background blurred. I know since this is what I do when I take pictures of my horses running by.
But the shutterspeed and object speed are somehow related : a very high shutterspeed freezes the background as well. So set these depending on your desire. Also the diafragm comes into the equation to consider in what range the image has to be frozen.

Almost nobody knows this anymore as they all ' point & shoot ' . I used to dibble with an old 'BOX 72mmx72mm' camera using cut strips of leftover films from a filmstudio , too short to use to film.. That was in the 60-ties of the previous millennium.. ..my god I'm old...
 
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Originally Posted by JIMLIGHTA
The drawback is that Firesand can look dull without direct Sunlight hitting metalic flakes...
I believe that Firesand, like Salsa, isn't metallic.


 
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The car doing what it likes to do.


 
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Originally Posted by Dan_NL
Indeed, the CCTV does not pan. But panning with the car ánd using a high shutterspeed will make the body of the car focused, and the wheels and background blurred. I know since this is what I do when I take pictures of my horses running by.
But the shutterspeed and object speed are somehow related : a very high shutterspeed freezes the background as well.
That's right, a high shutter speed will tend to freeze the background, too. Hence use a lower shutter speed and pan on the subject as it moves past, "freezing" that and blurring all the stationary stuff.
 
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Old 01-14-2019, 04:30 PM
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That's right, a high shutter speed will tend to freeze the background, too. Hence use a lower shutter speed and pan on the subject as it moves past, "freezing" that and blurring all the stationary stuff.
When shooting motorcycles, 1/250 of a second was about rights to keep the rider/bike in focus, yet blur the wheels and background. Cars are more forgiving as they are larger and you can sometimes get away with 1/60 of a second if you are good enough about keeping it in frame.
 
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Originally Posted by eeeeek
The car doing what it likes to do.


You definitely need some suspension tweaking:



 
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Originally Posted by eeeeek
The car doing what it likes to do.



Man...Yours looks super clean out there! I practically wrapped mine in a condom was so damn worried about rock chips! (track armor)


 
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I took a chance...It was an Aston Martin track days, so I gambled the drivers would be a bit more reserved. The pavement at Thunderhill is also is great shape. All I ended up with on the front of my car were some bugs.

I'm curious, though...why the painters tape on the headlights? In the old days that was to keep the glass from shattering all over the track, but since the covers aren't glass...
 


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