Modded Jap Ute(Pick-up)

[NikonF4s]

Some shots I took for Australian car Mag www.autosalon.org (http://www.autosalon.org/)

[Moppie]

Nice, but your going to hate me for saying this.
I don't think you fully captured how this thing looks.

I saw it at the last Autosalon:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Moppie/IMG_1864edit.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Moppie/IMG_1868edited.jpg


Its LOW, Really really LOW!
And the paint is a perfect smooth even blue from one end to the other, I think it needs a fairly plain back ground to show it.

Also Im guessing you have boosted the saturation in those shots?
I like how the paint looks on the side of the truck in the 2nd one, but the back has lost all its detail, and the sky is very over powering.

Still nice shots though, and I envy your job :cool:

[NikonF4s]

Nice, but your going to hate me for saying this.
I don't think you fully captured how this thing looks.

I saw it at the last Autosalon:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Moppie/IMG_1868edited.jpg


Its LOW, Really really LOW!
And the paint is a perfect smooth even blue from one end to the other, I think it needs a fairly plain back ground to show it.

Also Im guessing you have boosted the saturation in those shots?
I like how the paint looks on the side of the truck in the 2nd one, but the back has lost all its detail, and the sky is very over powering.

Still nice shots though, and I envy your job :cool:
True, very true. I think that maybe I was a little wound up in the artistic side!! A little self indulgent!!
They didn't run the pics anyway, I think Performance car beat them to it. It's always the way!

[Moppie]

Damn that Performance car!

You should be selling shots to them anyway, not some Ausie mag.
Opps, sorry, I forgot you have to part of thier little "family" to get anything in there. :)

They are deffinitly artistic though, I can see where you were going now, unforunatly I don't think many readers of import mags can even spell artisitic, let alone know what it means :)
Thier insistance on the use of the term "import" is example enough.

[NikonF4s]

Damn that Performance car!

You should be selling shots to them anyway, not some Ausie mag.
Opps, sorry, I forgot you have to part of thier little "family" to get anything in there. :)

They are deffinitly artistic though, I can see where you were going now, unforunatly I don't think many readers of import mags can even spell artisitic, let alone know what it means :)
Thier insistance on the use of the term "import" is example enough.
I have given up on getting in the 'clique' with NZPC. I have better things to do. They seem to enjoy their standard front 3/4, rear 3/4, side profile, and olbligatory rolling shots. Hardly creative thinking though...but, you are right, their readership is not exactly going to appreciate nice pics. I don't think you can even buy a copy unless you drive (another) Evo or a Corolla with an RE dropped in it. Please.
(I don't mean to be so bitter or scathing, but if you all knew the choke hold this publication has on the industry in New Zealand, you would understand! No offence to Jared if you happen to read this, you are the exception)

[blinking8s]

I really dig the post processing...I agree with not capturing the lowness of its profile

[NikonF4s]

I really dig the post processing...I agree with not capturing the lowness of its profile
It was a really blue sky, plus I had a polarising filter. In PS all i did was 'freak out' the levels, and it came up sweet! You are right, I didn't capture how low it was, the thing is on airbags, check out the compressors!

[Moppie]

It would have been nice to get that close to it at the show, theres some impressive enigneering in the back end :)

I gave up reading NZPC after its 3rd or 4th issue. We have such a huge variety of cars here in NZ, yet the same ones keep appearing in NZPC month after month.
The articles are all the same, I think they just have few templates that they use, and they never go into anywhere near enough detail.
And thier tech articles are a joke, often full of false or missleading information.

Its a real shame it is such a bad publication, being associated with NZ Classic Car they should really be able to produce a much better product. They share most of the same resources (including photoraphers) yet one is a world class publication and the other is a bad joke on our love of all things automotive, little more than an automotive tabloid.
Having worked for an agent who's had several cars featured in NZ Classic car, and in the process driven and photographed by the NZPC guys I would not let them near any car I owned. Even my well used uglude. If your given a $250,000 super car and told to be gentle with the gearbox because it has a weak 1st gear, you don't bring it back with melted rubber sprayed around inside the rear guards.