A journey around my Car-ther

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Wellll... someone went and pranged my old car recently. So this is me sort of making a historical 3D record of the thing, on the last day I had insurance and tax cover to drive it before picking up an equally cheap replacement (which I might do also later on). By this point it's sitting at home awaiting salvage collection :'( ... a bit sad, but at the end of the day it was a bit of an anonymous silver lump that I didn't really like that much originally. We've just sort of moulded to each other over the last FOUR YEARS (blimey, it went fast) so it's like getting rid of a beloved pair of trainers, or a small pet. Slightly upsetting at first, but I'm sure I'll get used to the new status quo pretty quick. It did at least give me a nice cheap ride for that time - going by the insurance payout, and servicing/maintenance (which was also pretty cheap), it's come out as somewhere around £320 PER YEAR.

Bangernomics, people. Give it a whirl. This Astra has been pretty much fault free all that time, from being 7 thru to 11 years old. I've known people with brand new cars having more trouble. :-D

Anyway this was meant to have been done early afternoon, but trouble getting out of work early ("again!") meant I had to start as twilight was coming in, and end when it was pitch black and freezing. So much use of high-ISO, long exposure, and flash. I hope it works....

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Date Created	1/21/2009

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tahrey Over 1 year ago

Hmmm, that didn't go as well as I'd hoped. At least most of the exterior walk-around (in both fading natural light and flash versions!) came out quite well, with a pretty light-show point cloud. I particularly like the way the light works on the twilight, non-flash shots, with the deep colour to the sky and the blue ambient colour cast it creates, with the contrasting orange of the sodium lamps just starting to make its presence felt. May try it again with a different subject later in the year - when I'm more able to start a little earlier into the fade, and it carries on for longer. And is slightly brighter overall (so the shutter times can be faster, and the number of re-takes of fluffed shots lower), and above all WARMER! I'm mostly put out by the poor synthing of this because of how frozen, and eventually numb my hands got (have you ever tried using a rangefinder compact with gloves on?) for a spoilt reward.
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tahrey Over 1 year ago

Possibly it's that there's not quite enough "linking" shots between the wide-angle ones and the close detail, and the exterior and interior (and different interior angles). Or just not enough light. I dunno. I had thought I'd done enough otherwise-boring interstitial ones so that the more interesting "meat" shots would synth together, I guess not. If it doesn't get quickly whisked away by the salvage agents (insurance writeoff for that little bump on the front left corner, BTW - that's the state of the used car market right now, for one that's got AC, PAS, a rock solid drivetrain and only 65k on the clock!), I'll have a go taking a few more close-in linking shots on the driveway (hence the need for them to be close up!) at the weekend.

For now I think I'll make a couple more synths with JUST all the exterior shots (including the non synthy ones), and JUST the interior/doors open ones, see if they gel a bit better that way; i.e. without me getting too clever.

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