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03COBRA

03COBRA

I miss my 03 Cobra......
Well for Christmas I decided to do a few things to my GF's 08 tC. I knew that she wanted coilovers and few misc items. But I didn't just want to wrap them in a box and give them to her. So I came up with the insane idea of taking her car Christmas eve night, and plan to install everything overnight and bring it to her house on Christmas morning. Well I got started at 11:00PM on Christmas eve, and finished Christmas morning at 5:00AM. I also knew that I was gonna be a little tired, so I had a couple of monsters ready to go!! I did throw a fresh coat of 845 on her for the winter...



The funny part is after I got done I tried to go to sleep before taking the car back, well I guess the Monsters had me so awake I couldn't fall asleep. So I ended up being awake for about 30 hours straight until the Monsters wore off. Then I felt like death itself.



Anyways, here are some pics of the before and after and a list of the parts installed!! Basically all the car has before was20% tint and 5000K HIDS...



- Tein SS-P coilovers

- TRD black chrome front upper strut bar

- Piaa ION yellow parking lights

- SuperBrightLEDS 4500K Pure white license plate lights

- Real CF license frames

- S2K Antenna

- VRD upper and lower front grille

- Factory OEM lip spoiler



Before... 11:00PM.

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tdekany: I use the Nikon D80. I used a technique that's becoming very popular nowadays called HDR ( High Dynamic Range) where you use atleast 3 differently exposed pictures to make one. You may have heard of it!! Look it up on Wiki maybe when you get a chance. I used this on all pictures of the car, so you can see the different effects you can get...



Thanks guys it was a lot of work, but well worth it. It's almost scary how awake you feel at the 24 hour mark with 32oz of Monster in you!! That stuff is no joke, first time I'd ever had them... :)
 
nice man...you better get mad sexAy time for that.lol.



Question about the D80...Have you noticed you have to tone down the photo by about .3-.7? mine reads really high and hot. I am coming from a canon used with 4 L glass pieces.



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Thanks Jpi. Yeah since you mention I do find it to be that way most of the time. That's kinda why I went with 4 or 5 different exposures on each shot while I was out. Just in case I got any hot spots or something I didn't like. And I wanted to mess around with HDR some. I wanted to test HDR, by trying to make a picture look perfect, and then the famous artsy HDR type picture...
 
O4cobra said:
tdekany: I use the Nikon D80. I used a technique that's becoming very popular nowadays called HDR ( High Dynamic Range) where you use atleast 3 differently exposed pictures to make one. You may have heard of it!! Look it up on Wiki maybe when you get a chance. I used this on all pictures of the car, so you can see the different effects you can get...



Thanks guys it was a lot of work, but well worth it. It's almost scary how awake you feel at the 24 hour mark with 32oz of Monster in you!! That stuff is no joke, first time I'd ever had them... :)
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I've heard of HDR, but never read up on it. I will now. Thanks. I am a Nikon fan. I was going to receive a D60 but decided not to get it for now. Again beautiful pictures.



However I have no clue of what Monster is. Must be something else. I'll google it for sure. :)
 
O4cobra said:
tdekany: I use the Nikon D80. I used a technique that's becoming very popular nowadays called HDR ( High Dynamic Range) where you use atleast 3 differently exposed pictures to make one. You may have heard of it!! Look it up on Wiki maybe when you get a chance. I used this on all pictures of the car, so you can see the different effects you can get...



Thanks guys it was a lot of work, but well worth it. It's almost scary how awake you feel at the 24 hour mark with 32oz of Monster in you!! That stuff is no joke, first time I'd ever had them... :)
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Nice job! Now tell her to get a real car! (Give me a sig check.)
 
BigAl3: Not after the alignment. The kit that I got comes with upper camber plates in the front. We could make it perfect 0 degrees of camber. But the specs from the factory called for atleast -.5 degrees, so we went with that. It's got a half degree of negative camber all around. Caster and toe are great, really happy with the alignment specs...



89gt-stanger: Haha, a real car!! It's a good little car for her honestly. She'll probably have it atleast through college. Then maybe upgrade to something else. But nothing with a lot of power...



tdekany: Monster energy drink is what I was referring to. Yeah HDR for me is a lot of fun, I really enjoy the endless possibilities of what you can do with the pictures. Here is what the steps look like when you do an HDR picture. This was a tutorial I made for a guy on another forum...



Start with these pictures:

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Then you load them into the Photomatix program and it gives you this image:

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Then you go to the tonemapping function in Photomatix:

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Then after tonemapping in Photomatix, and then some touches in Photoshop, this is what I came up with!!



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Great work and that is a very nice present to give... Hope she was very happy!



Very nice pictures and just by looking at them I knew you were using a Nikon DSLR. Very crisp and clean.



I love the HDR pics too.



Do you need a camera with bracketing to do HDR in Photomatrix?



What lense are you using?
 
rydawg: Yes you need to have a camera you can change the exposure on. Like my semi tutorial above you wanna have between 3-5 pictures of different exposures to do it properly. For everyday shooting I use my Nikkor 24-120 VR lense. I really like the lense. Little hard for close up pics, but it gets the job done...
 
Some knowledgeable photographers here as well i see. You can do an HDR shot with PS as well, btw.



I personally don't like the style of HDR on the cars in this thread (no offense), makes them look CGI, I tend to prefer a more natural tone (similar to what our eyes see), but they are amazing in highlighting detail impossible with a single shot.
 
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