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Rainer posted:Yes it is, and firehawk, I agree on the weights but It just got a new set of tires from the previous owner, so It's going to be awhile until that's fixed (I hope). Get your rear end to the closest tire shop and have them do a static balance on those wheels. It should be less than $20 and it will save the finish. Leaving wheel weights on the outside of a wheel will gently caress up the finish badly. If you like the wheels and car get that poo poo fixed asap.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:I'm just picturing you sitting on the car when the officials arrive, drenched in blood, drinking a coke, going "'sup?" Heh this is pretty close to what happened. The EMS couldn't believe it. Just heard from my insurance and looks like they'll cover the car 
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Putka posted:Heh this is pretty close to what happened. The EMS couldn't believe it. Uh, why wouldn't they? Thats what you pay them for.
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Jul 22, 2009 07:51
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Putka posted:The inspector said that the only reason we're probably alive is the fact that we we're driving so fast, which stopped the moose from coming through the window onto us. Holy poo poo, that's amazing. Walking away from that is pretty special. Your car did good I don't have to contend with moose but I've been taught that if I see a kangaroo and a collision is inevitable, don't brake too heavily or else the front of the car will dip and flip the kangaroo through the windscreen and in to me  My new car is here but here's my old car after a kangaroo at 120km/h. I didn't brake, but I did lift off... it went right over the top:  It cost my insurance company $9000 to repair but they did and I drove it for a further two years. If I'd slammed the anchors on, I'd have been in a world of pain.
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Jul 22, 2009 13:42
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 My Audi A3 in a well over-the-top HDR photo! It's going to be my main ride until the end of the year when I'll look to buy a roadster of some description just for me... I'm thinking an MR2.
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Jul 22, 2009 18:04
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Scienide posted:TERRIBLE TERRIBLE PHOTO loving hell that poo poo hurts my eyes. Put up a photo that you haven't fake-HDR'd would you?
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Jul 22, 2009 18:09
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I HATE CARS posted:loving hell that poo poo hurts my eyes. Put up a photo that you haven't fake-HDR'd would you? *Not faked, just really OTT! 
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Jul 22, 2009 18:16
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Scienide posted:*Not faked, just really OTT! Are you seriously told me that you took multiple bracketed exposures in RAW files using a tripod and then pulled something like that out of it?
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Jul 22, 2009 18:20
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Scienide posted:
Next time, don't bother with the bracketing and just blow out the Contrast slider in photoshop, okay? Same result.
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Jul 22, 2009 18:40
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I HATE CARS posted:Are you seriously told me that you took multiple bracketed exposures in RAW files using a tripod and then pulled something like that out of it? To be fair, the car looks like every other lovely VW/Audi picture in this thread.
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Jul 22, 2009 18:51
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Hatebreed posted:To be fair, the car looks like every other lovely VW/Audi picture in this thread. Good point. Here Scienide you can delete your post now, I've even lowered your car and found you much cooler wheels too 
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Jul 22, 2009 19:03
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I HATE CARS posted:Are you seriously told me that you took multiple bracketed exposures in RAW files using a tripod and then pulled something like that out of it? Yup, Nikon D90 [f7.1 | ISO400 | 1/8]- took the photos to test out Photomatix that the office had just bought. That's the first, admittedly over done attempt (used the car as it was parked outside and was clean as a test). It was sitting on my hard drive and I thought, looks a bit cack but what the hell, I'll upload it... I'm surprised to find that you feel so deeply offended by it but, hey ho! I HATE CARS posted:Good point. Here Scienide you can delete your post now, I've even lowered your car and found you much cooler wheels too Cheers but it's going to be lowered next month and A3 Quattro wheels are on the way! I must say, I do find a lot of third party manufacturer wheels look a little cheap*, the 20-spoke Audi alloys that come as part of the new S3 package look much better than the one in the picture you posted:  *Oh, there are always exceptions... 
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I went to a nice photogenic area to take some quality pictures of my car the other night, and only got this halfway-lovely one before the PO-LICE showed up and told me I had to leave. I respect law enforcement tremendously, but this guy was an absolute dick. I felt an inch away from being arrested. God forbid anyone is in a church parking lot at 10 o'clock at night! What do you think you're doing here? Well, I'm pointing a camera and tripod at my car. It is a 2007 Honda Civic Si coupe in rallye red. Modifications to date include a Fujita short ram intake (currently swapped with an AEM cold air intake for the summer,) Strup race header, A'pexi World Sport 2 catback exhaust, Eibach Pro Kit suspension, and a Cobb AccessPort running a stage 2 map ("it's fuckin' tune time.") Bling bling includes a Honda of Japan Civic Type R shift knob and shift boot. Making an estimated 220 HP. These were rated 197 HP at the crank, but actual baseline power to the wheels typically yields 184 - 186 HP. My last dyno pull yielded 204 HP, and this was with the short ram intake and no AccessPort. After adding the Cobb, it feels like an entirely different beast (any Subaru owner can attest to that, I'm sure.) You WRX owners have it made, though; Cobb has managed to milk over 40 additional horsepower out of the 2009 just with tuning. I'd wager I made something like 15 HP.
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Steve. posted:Holy poo poo, that's amazing. Walking away from that is pretty special. Your car did good Nice replacement for the Dunnydore, those VWs look great.
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Jul 22, 2009 23:46
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Scienide posted:Yup, Nikon D90 [f7.1 | ISO400 | 1/8]- took the photos to test out Photomatix that the office had just bought. That's the first, admittedly over done attempt (used the car as it was parked outside and was clean as a test). It was sitting on my hard drive and I thought, looks a bit cack but what the hell, I'll upload it... Wait, from what you're saying there you shot all the pictures with exactly the same settings and aperture. That's not how you do it ... I'm going to stop messing up this thread and just recommend you go read Creative Convention or something to get a start - http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=31
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Jul 22, 2009 23:55
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enojy posted:I'd arrest you too for taking a picture that terrible.
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You Am I posted:$9000 for only that amount of damage? Holy poo poo, all I can see is the bonnet being a bit bent, did the roo bounce along your roof. I've seen cars looking worse after dealing with a kangaroo at slower speeds.  I'd driven from Adelaide to Thredbo and back, and this happened five minutes from home on the freeway (near the Stirling exit for any Adelaide goons) after not having seen a single dead or alive kangaroo the 2700km round trip. I'm loving the R36, it's an enormous step up from a VY Commodore and even from a mark 5 Golf GTI.
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enojy posted:I went to a nice photogenic area to take some quality pictures of my car the other night, and only got this halfway-lovely one before the PO-LICE showed up and told me I had to leave. I respect law enforcement tremendously, but this guy was an absolute dick. I felt an inch away from being arrested. God forbid anyone is in a church parking lot at 10 o'clock at night! What do you think you're doing here? Well, I'm pointing a camera and tripod at my car.
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Steve. posted:Yeah, I was surprised too. When I picked the car up from being fixed the repairer told me it was on the verge of being written off. You're right, it doesn't look too bad but apparently it had ruined a fair bit of stuff. It did hit the roof at the rear and leave a dent, but I didn't notice that in time to get a photo. There was kangaroo juice all over the windscreen Out of curiosity: Did it set the airbags off?
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Steve. posted:Yeah, I was surprised too. When I picked the car up from being fixed the repairer told me it was on the verge of being written off. You're right, it doesn't look too bad but apparently it had ruined a fair bit of stuff. It did hit the roof at the rear and leave a dent, but I didn't notice that in time to get a photo. There was kangaroo juice all over the windscreen
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One of my employees wanted to fool around with his new camera. Here's another one of the ol' box... Click here for the full 2048x1300 image.
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Replica Kill posted:One of my employees wanted to fool around with his new camera. Here's another one of the ol' box... I've seen pictures like this before...they look like paintings or sketches instead of photos. I imagine it's some kind of HDR technique...got any details?
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Replica Kill posted:One of my employees wanted to fool around with his new camera. Here's another one of the ol' box... Yeah, I'd like to know too, I think the M3 deserves a photo or two like this.
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Yeah, I want a pic like that of my car. How do I get one without paying someone a zillion dollars?
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I don't know anything about photography, but ozziegt is right, the technique is called "HDR". Here's the photographer's website, etc. in case you want to get in touch with him: http://sjbvision.com. I'm surprised he put my car on the site, it's in the HDR section along with some other cars, an SR71 and a SPACE SHUTTLE!
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Replica Kill posted:One of my employees wanted to fool around with his new camera. Here's another one of the ol' box... get out of here b.o.x.s.t.e.r.
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Replica Kill posted:I don't know anything about photography, but ozziegt is right, the technique is called "HDR". Well, there is a lot of HDR photography and most of it is crap (look a few posts up). I'm not really into HDR, but I would love to be able to get that effect.
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Das Volk posted:I think the M3 deserves a photo or two like this. NO car deserves a picture like that.  That is the  version of HDR photography.
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Baby Hitler posted:I'd arrest you too for taking a picture that terrible. I know! This was the only one that even remotely came out. I spent all of 90 seconds setting up before the police showed up; I'm guessing they were nearby and saw me park. sw0cb posted:What do those run in the 1/4 mile? My best was 14.8 when I just had a short ram intake, but I'm not much into drag racing, so I'd assume a well-versed driver could get mid to low 14s with a bolt-on or two. It's still a Civic in that regard.
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enojy posted:My best was 14.8 when I just had a short ram intake, but I'm not much into drag racing, so I'd assume a well-versed driver could get mid to low 14s with a bolt-on or two. It's still a Civic in that regard. Needs more boost.
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dissss posted:Out of curiosity: Did it set the airbags off? You Am I posted:Ah, well if it hit the roof hard enough, then that'll screw up the safety cell for the passengers. After we hit it, I kept driving. I was only five minutes from home and I wasn't going to stop on the freeway at 3am in the dark, and the car didn't freak out much apart from the headlights pointing in different directions. I got the car home, which wasn't all that good because it just dropped coolant all over my driveway and was very annoying to get towed out of there the following day. I'm very glad that we had swapped drivers about two hours previously. My friend who had been driving would have freaked out after hitting a kangaroo. I've hit so many different animals so many times... I don't freak out as much. Finch! fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jul 23, 2009 |
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Replica Kill posted:One of my employees wanted to fool around with his new camera. Here's another one of the ol' box... Dear God. Please tell me none of you want to actually reproduce this photo with your own cars, Jesus. There are much, much better ways to put together an HDR shot and have it look 100x better. bung posted:That is the Pretty much this.
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Or you could just take a good photo of it and not have to make your car look fake to be cool. I really hate 95% of HDR photography and this is a prime example. Exposure blending is fine because the eye sees a bigger range of light than a camera does anyway, but HDR is way beyond that. This isn't even a photo any more.
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Steve. posted:I'm loving the R36, it's an enormous step up from a VY Commodore and even from a mark 5 Golf GTI. gently caress you for even being able to get the R36. Please post pictures 
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rockcity posted:Or you could just take a good photo of it and not have to make your car look fake to be cool. I really hate 95% of HDR photography and this is a prime example. Exposure blending is fine because the eye sees a bigger range of light than a camera does anyway, but HDR is way beyond that. This isn't even a photo any more. Auto photography is what killed HDR for me. I think I've seen one, maybe two good HDR car photos. The rest are just horrible. edit: Case in point: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stits/2989809531/ DropShadow fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Jul 23, 2009 |
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rockcity posted:This isn't even a photo any more. But it is art, and art is subjective. The performance aspects of cars are objective, it's either fast or it's not. Aesthetics and photography styles are subjective, some people like them and some people don't. Saying you don't like it is fine, saying that it's wrong is another matter. Most of us share the opinion that the picture of a civic above is not a good picture, but it's still just an opinion however popular it may be. At any rate, don't we have a subforum to discuss this sort of thing?
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We have a thread over in CC for only HDR photography and theres a tutorial in the OP about how to do it. Its really not hard at all http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2568111
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rockcity posted:This isn't even a photo any more. That's kind of the point. KickStand posted:We have a thread over in CC for only HDR photography and theres a tutorial in the OP about how to do it. I think I need to hang out over there because it seems like the photographers over here are a bunch of prudes.
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Art is subjective, but talk to any photographer, or probably any artist worth their salt, and they will tell you that that is not good photography. It might be subjective, but there is still such a thing as objectively good and bad art (I guess that is technically my opinion, but your really splitting hairs if you want to get into that).
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