A few VY SS pics...

[kryten2001]

Hi all...

Took a few pics of the VY over the weekend, thought I'd share....

(And I took this BEFORE the 7 hour wash/polish/job)..

Here (http://www.andrewmacbeth.com/commodore/display.html?01.jpg)

Here (http://www.andrewmacbeth.com/commodore/display.html?02.jpg)

Here (http://www.andrewmacbeth.com/commodore/display.html?03.jpg)

Here (http://www.andrewmacbeth.com/commodore/display.html?04.jpg)

Here (http://www.andrewmacbeth.com/commodore/display.html?05.jpg)

Here (http://www.andrewmacbeth.com/commodore/display.html?06.jpg)

Cheers....

[davidred]

Absolutely beautiful :bow:

You've now inspired me to wash my own car..

[Tre-Cool]

Are you a pro photographer? coz you've taken some rather brilliant shots there mate.

Will have to see you about geting some shots of mine when i come back home to perth.

[kryten2001]

Nah not a pro, but I'm very much into it (my SS is my new distraction)

My Website (http://www.andrewmacbeth.com)

[scat2k3]

kryten2001, your website is outstanding. There are many people who frame photo's such as yours and command top dollar at the local markets.

I hope you are doing the same, because your skills with the camera could be a nice little side earner. Pay for some nice mods I would imagine.

Your ride is very schmick as well. Nice job.

Cheers,

Scott

[Haroc]

there great pics, any chance ofsome in high res? would make a great wallpaper :)

[VZSS250]

Mate,

those pictures are stunning, that is one nice ride.

Thats what its all about.

Stay away from rice ppl.

[Roddy]

What sort of photography gear are you using? Top work. :)

[kryten2001]

What sort of photography gear are you using? Top work. :)

I use a mixed bag of gear (literally), including digital and film. Most of my stuff is still shot on film though as I love its qualities. Slide film in particular, has a lovely saturated glossy feel to it (but it's a bitch to shoot).. You can see some of these images have "blown highlights" which is typical with film if you're shooting in areas which are both dark and light.

These particular images were taken on a hasselblad Xpan camera (it uses 35mm film, but shoots 2 frames together in a panoramic fashion). Roughly around 40 megapixels, give or take.

Xpan Link (http://www.xpan.com)

The original images are over 10,000 x 3000 pixels, which when printed, gives a perfect image up to around 1.1 meters long by about 40 cms deep (2.7:1 ratio). Of course, you can easily go bigger if you're happy to sacrifice quality somewhat.

[kryten2001]

Last one.. For now!

Here (http://www.andrewmacbeth.com/commodore/display.html?07.jpg)

Cheers -

[Goggles]

cool pics....just need to photoshop my numberplate onto the pics and pass the pics off as my car....just kidding!

[VZSS250]

You can't right click!!!

thats a tragedy.

[kryten2001]

You can't right click!!!

thats a tragedy.

Check the hyperlink, just remove the display.html? bit, then you can do pretty well anything you like....

[carneb]

Very nice photos kryten2001. The exposure seems to be spot on! :thumbsup: Do you use exposure bracketing?

[jsttry]

Very clean car. What do you use to clean and polish it?

[kryten2001]

Very nice photos kryten2001. The exposure seems to be spot on! :thumbsup: Do you use exposure bracketing?

No, not really. I use a handheld incident meter when shooting in the day (when possible) which usually gets it pretty close. As soon as you go 42-bit scanning though, you can get away with blue murder in the exposure department - particularly if you go neg films.

When shooting slide, I generally like to underexpose just a bit if I know I'm ultimately going to scan the images. You can dig detail out of the shadows, but if you blow those highlights, you're lost (like the image of the car under the bridge)....

Tons on my website about this sort of stuff though (if you're up for a read!).. Go to the articles section.....

[kryten2001]

Very clean car. What do you use to clean and polish it?

Meguiars... Wonderful wonderful stuff.

I use the Gold Class Wash (man does that stuff smell good), and then the Gold Class liquid wax. Expensive, but really good.

My older car (25 years old!) was done with the Wash, the Meguiars cleaner, polish and then wax. Came up like a beauty....

It's as dear as hell, but it's the best stuff out there (alongside Mothers) if you want to bring out the best in your car.

[RARASV8]

:D well you may be able to help kryten2001, when ever i take a photo of my PHANTOM SV8, what ever is in the sky is whats on my roof, (clowds/blue sky)
any suggestions on how i can avoid this, i've used both 35mm and digital.
Please help

[mavss]

Great looking car.

Fantastic pictures & love your site.

[kryten2001]

:D well you may be able to help kryten2001, when ever i take a photo of my PHANTOM SV8, what ever is in the sky is whats on my roof, (clowds/blue sky)
any suggestions on how i can avoid this, i've used both 35mm and digital.
Please help

Not sure I understand.. Are you saying the top of your car is highly reflective?... (Can you email me a scanned example?).. Happy to help.

[lowriding]

Beautiful photograpy - Thanks for sharing that . :cheers:

[RARASV8]

:D
on it's way :D
gee gota love this technology one click and it travels 5000k's :lol:

[jsttry]

Thanks mate, I use the gold class wash too :-) haven't tried the wax, waiting to finish my bottles of professional series products first. I think I should start my own Meguiars franchise with all the bottles of things I have. I tried their new colour wash the other day, makes a slight improvement.

[plonkerchops]

kryten2001, your website is outstanding. There are many people who frame photo's such as yours and command top dollar at the local markets.

I hope you are doing the same, because your skills with the camera could be a nice little side earner. Pay for some nice mods I would imagine.

Your ride is very schmick as well. Nice job.

Cheers,

Scott


If you come down here to Dunsborough kryten2001 theres a guy called Christian Fletcher whose made quite a nice little earner out of photography
( and let me tell you if you have a studio smack bang in the main street of Dunno , you ARE on a good earner )
Im no expert but the stuff on your site looks as good as his is

[pappa]

kryten2001, i just read thru some of your articles.. thanks for taking the time to put them together.. because all i can say is brilliant work!

just for the record, my favourate photos on your site are 'pano05': the bruckheimer experiment'. what you've done is capture what looks like to have been an _awesome_ moment in time..

the colours in 'jaffa sky' are gorgeous!

the orange and the blue (abs11) is another fine example of 'whats simple is true'. hmm.. its actually making me what to hunt for an orange or three! :)))

Thanks again!

[LOWKEY]

nice car and pics too!

[6LtrLimo]

A truly unbelievable website. Great work. Keep it up.

[EL SLAMO]

Excellent work, Your car looks unreal (literaly!!). An Absolute credit too you!
An excellent shot would be a panoramic of the Perth forum members cars... ;)