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Is that a focus I see with scissor doors..?

If you look at the pic with the impala in it...to the right...it was more tuners/muscle...to the left (focus down) it was more ricerish......and yes lol it was a focus with scissors...tail lights look retarded..and he had a lic plate about being rice...so...idk...

Yeah, S13s are pretty common in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area.

I assume you enjoyed Formula D?

Turbo Impala, must have a lot of fabrication that went to that car..hard to find companies produce aftermarket parts for those, especially turbo kits

Yeah we had fun. Teammate didn't perform how we'd liked, but we had issues all day with the car, and no handbrake. Finished 17th though, so not terribly bad. I just got drunk the whole time pretty much.

Damn I wish I had meets like that around my area, love seeing the diversity of cars. Heck now I'm interested to see just how that Impala has its turbo set up.

Not my picture,but I should be seeing this on Saturday.

There's a turbo kit specifically for the 00-05 Impalas.

But here's what he bought...

Boardwalk had their show spring show today.






If you can guess what these 2 are,you get 2 cookies.











You cant really tell in this picture,but this was a deep red. Its called Rosso Barchetta.

Me and a friend snuck up to their "vault",which is where they keep the older and more valuable stuff. Not much up there today though.










Then I went on to Boardwalk Porsche,and look what was waiting inside...


They also had a Black Edition and Carrera GT outside.




All in all,a good day!

This post has been edited by GT3 RS on May 14 2011, 07:08 PM

Do you intentionally take dark shots? Or just forgot about ISO/Exposure?

^Yes. I seem to like darker photos more.

@GT3RS

I think it's time that you work on your composition more. They are not bad but you could do better.
Get down more, don't shoot standing up. The colours are overly saturated but I'm not surprised since Canon camera tends to saturate colour, especially the red by a lot.
Here's an example of one of my photographs taken 4 months ago. Indoor car shows are notoriously difficult to compose the shot because of the immense crowd and tight space, but yours were outdoor so you had lots of space to play.

Ive been telling myself I need to do that,but I think I need to upgrade my lens and get a bit more used to it first. Im cross-eyed,so its a bit hard looking through the viewfinder.

I did attempt a shot of the rear of the 458 Challenge with the field across the road (visible in the Scuderia picture) as the background. But unfortunately,the car was out of focus. Doing things like this is something I still havent gotten down. Most of my front pictures of the Speedster came out blurry as well. The one posted was taken with my iPhone.


What lens did you use on the 2 you posted?

I used the 24-105mm f/4 L lens. It's a $1k lens but I would recommend this lens only if you are seriously into photo but also video as well. If it's only photos, then the 24-70 f/2.8 L is the recommended choice.

Obviously these lenses are WAAAAY out of your budget I suspect. I would consider a fixed (non-zoomable) lens for an upgrade like a 35mm or 50mm fixed focal length. Non zoom lens is a great way to improve your composition because you're restricting yourself and are forced to move. You will hate it first but when you get a nice shot, you will love it. As a very famous photographer (Ansel Adams) once said "A good photograph is knowing where to stand."

For an upgrade, the Canon EF 35mm f/2.0 (around $300) or/and the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 (around $130) will be my recommended choice. They offer excellent image quality for the price but the downside is that they are hard to use.

This post has been edited by Bloody_Monday on May 15 2011, 02:04 PM

A bit curious. Those 2 you suggested,what do you mean by "hard to use"?

I don't know much about the 35mm f/2.0 because I don't have it but as far as user reviews said, it's slow to focus, feels cheap and is really noisy when focusing.
I do have the 50mm f/1.8 and from my experience, it's a love and hate lens. At f/1.8, it can produce very sharp and very beautiful images with very good background blur and gets even sharper at f/2.8 but I hate it because it's very noisy (like R2D2 having a seizure), misses a lot at f/1.8 (4 out of 10 photos are in focus), on a 7D it's equivalent to a 80mm lens so you have a much narrower field of view and feels totally cheap. Everything is plastic.
I often use manual focus on the 50mm so I don't need to recompose the shot at f/1.8.

This post has been edited by Bloody_Monday on May 15 2011, 02:44 PM

The oil drain design is terrible and stupid and retarded and an abortion and its mother should have been aborted.


Just thought I'd say that.

Ah,okay. Thanks for clearing that up.

Whats your opinion on buying used lenses?

Make sure you can inspect them first.

The car's had 50,000+ miles on it since the turbo...seems to be running fine...it's his DD lol.

A couple shots from the local Mitsu club's dyno day last weekend:

Did a random photoshoot, because my friend got a new DSLR Nikon D5100 Camera..and wanted to test it out....
Right before we were about to leave 3 cop cars pulled up and were wondering what the hell we were doing in the loading dock of Costco...and 2:46AM. That went..interestingly.

there's some hellah good car "porn", in this thread...

This post has been edited by phearless on Jun 1 2011, 11:38 AM

Photos that my mates have taken of my car:

Pics from yesterday.

SPOILER

The F40 made another appearance. Damn good looking (and sounding) car. Never get tired of seeing it. MC Sportline. Owner is the guy talking to the guy in the yellow shirt. Baby blue anyone? First generation Azure Mulliner. Pretty big! Brand new Continental GT... ...with a brand new Mulsanne just steps away. This is still growing on me. Felt good to see not one,but two R32s parked next to each other. I had never seen an R32 prior. The white one was actually my 2nd favorite there. Out of all the cars there,this was my favorite,and the show stealer. ...and its from Oklahoma of all places. Made a trip to Lamborghini Dallas afterwards. They had a few decent things,including another SLR. They also have an Ariel Atom and LP570-4 SL coming soon.