In what appears to be a recurring theme I’m talking about oranges but this time it’s a car not a fruit, because orange is a colour as well as a thing you eat, crikey this blog is educational as well as awesomely brilliant.
Here’s the surprise though – there are no lemons – I just said that to fool you! HA!
bye for now.
I’ve owned this car for a fair old while now but have only just finished fixing all the bits that needed doing so I could get it back on the road.
So I spent an afternoon cleaning it and took some photos. Because I’ve realised my front page takes forever to load with too many photos on it, I’ve only posted one photo here, the rest are available through this link which YOU MUST CLICK IMMEDIATELY!!
This time Richard at Performance Car Dreams had a very nice Vauxhall Corsa VXR for me to shoot. As it’s still firmly winter time, and I’ve got a day job, this left me shooting at night.
I tried a different approach to the Audi shoot last year, this time I used long exposures of 30 seconds, and triggered two Vivitar 285HV flashes manually by hand at various points around the car to highlight the areas I wanted.
Corsa VXR
Corsa VXR
I also tried to get a decent shot of the interior but I remain rubbish at this. It’s either something I’m doing wrong in taking the shot, or a shortcoming in my post processing skills (or lack thereof).
In other news, sadly although my new whizzy Mesh PC is sufficiently stable to do a little bit of photo editing, it’s not up to the job of performing more strenuous tasks without displaying a blue screen of death and then crashing and like a miserable little stoat poo.
So I’ve got to send it back to Mesh who will no doubt tell me that there is nothing wrong with it and send it back to me still broken.
Also, my replacement camera that was suppposed to take 7-10 days to be delivered has not arrived, a mere 21 days later. Sigh….
It’s been a while since I’ve taken any photos so it was a welcome diversion to get out this weekend and wave the camera around frenziedly smashing the buttons and hoping for the best.
Aside from being overwhelmingly cute and funky, these Fiats are also absurdly specified as standard with all kinds of bluetooth and mp3 whizbangery taking place.
On to the pictures, because frankly no-one cares what I say.
This rig shot is a mixed bag – I’m happy enough with the composition and processing, but I’m gutted I forgot to put the lights on which would have looked much better.
