Got Bored - Firebird Hood

[Joshua312]

First off, sorry in advance for my beyond crappy camera skills and poor lighting. I got bored tonight and decided to drag the hood off my last car out of the barn and into the garage. This was around 9:30 so obviously I had to deal with what lighting I had around - Check back tomorrow night for updated pictures, If its sunny tomorrow Im gonna take some sun shots outside.

Process:

Wash with carbrite blue liquid

Color X with polishing pad

Optimum compound with meg. cutting pad

Optimum polish with meg. polishing pad

RMG with meg. polishing pad

Poorboys ex via finishing pad

*Little edit, forgot to let everyone know, this was done by PC* :buffing:



http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird102.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird083.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird196.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird179.jpg

[Joshua312]

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird178.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird197.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird121.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird215.jpg

Before ^

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird227.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird229.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird232.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird133.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/jrschippa/Firebird113.jpg

[Joshua312]

If anyone has any reccomendations for taking better pictures I would greatly appreciate it, a special mode or setting I should put my camera in? I struggled being able to show the swirls as they truly were. Or possibly it could be I just stink at taking pictures with artificial light at night :wall Hopefully it`s nice tomorrow so I can show you the true results under sunlight

[01bluecls]

I think the pics are pretty good. I mean its always hard to capture on camera what we all see in real life. I struggle with it all the time in my pictures. GREAT job on the hood by the way! What kind of camera do you have by the way?

[adept]

what kind of camera? do you have a tripod? if you can use a macro setting on your camera, and do a long exposure shot on the tripod, that would be great.

[Joshua312]

Im using a Sony Cybershot DSC-T1 5.0 Megapixel --- No tripod :(

[01bluecls]

I mean the pics are pretty good IMO...I think they are a lot better then the quality of pics I have taken. Like I said in the PM, playing with the settings (making sure you know what changes with which settings) should help.