After machine polishing and refining, the paint was showing its flake more clearly with a deeper gloss to the oyster grey metallic paint. Switched my camera here courtesy of mad dad popping along to get his car washed
So now I can play with the focal points, a little on that later
The clairty of the paint allowing the flake to ping through:
Most cameras seem to focus automatically on the flake in metallic paints, but this actually means the bulb reflection is out of focus... on solid paints you generally see the bulb focussed as the camera picks up on it when using an automatic focus... The flake and the bulb reflection are at different focus lengths, so a little play with the manual focus allows you to focus on the bulb of the Sun Gun...
You can see that the flake is now out of focus, but this technique is ideal for taking pictures of RDS in the paint which sit on the top layer, rather than being in the flake. Anyways, just a little aside on the photography of paint from my perspective, back to the detailing
Numberplate removed at rear for correction...
Tight spots corrected too
More of the machine finish:
And some pictures of the paint finish after the machine polishing stage only...
Now, applying and removing Jeffs Acryllic Prime, the choice of cleanser and first LSP layer for this car:
Leaving...
(Not sure what Iain is doing here
