Marauder photo session last Friday

[TripleTransAm]

The planets were aligned somehow... the car was clean, I had my photo equipment with me, and I had some spare time before having to go pick up the little one at his grandparents.

So I spent a little while taking some photos and put some of the better ones up on a site which I will connect to my own site eventually.

http://www.tripletransam.com/mm/mm_tint.html


For anyone who's curious, the shots were taken with a FujiFilm S2 Pro with a Nikkor (Nikon) 80-200 mm f2.8 telephoto lens and Hoya circular polarizer. The photos were downsized from their original ~6 megapixel filesizes via Photoshop. (I think there may have been one or two photos taken with a 28-105mm f3.5 lens but I'd have to go back and check the files).

Enjoy. I know I can spend hours just looking at Marauder pics.

edit: had the wrong URL listed, sorry.

[Jeff]

Very nice web site! I enjoyed the pictures and your commentary immensely. :up:

[TripleTransAm]

Originally posted by Jeff
Very nice web site! I enjoyed the pictures and your commentary immensely. :up:

I take it you caught the bad URL, then? :o Sorry if you got stuck with having to go through all that other junk, I really only meant to post the "tint" shots. When I saw the bad link, I tried as quickly as possible to correct the mistake... but thanks anyway for the kind words.

[Patrick]

Great pics!!!!:beer: . I'll have to save some of those in personall photo gallery!!! If not a prob???

Working on getting a new camera here, So I hope to share more of my own.

And yes I do spend alot of time looking at my MM as well as many others!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[studio460]

Hey Triple-T!

Boy that Fuji S2 looks sweeeeeeeet! Everyone's always claimed the colorimetry of the Fuji S1/S2 kicked the Nikon D1/X/H's butt, and now I see why. The full-res shots must be incredible. Hopefully, there's a Nikon D100 in my future sometime, but I gotta keep savin' for the blower, ya know . . . Very nice shots. Very nice car.

[Bigdogjim]

Nice job. Show off a lot of hard work, good planning.

[martyo]

Nice photos, really nice photos.

Come wax my car, please.

Car looks great without the front license plate bracket.

The air appears much clearer in Canada than it is here in Smog City.

Choose your quote......

[prchrman]

photogenic car...eh...:up:great shutterbugging and wonderful subject matter...I'm going get hurt someday-walking away and looking back...:D

[jrzygrl]

Nice pics, quality stuff...I've got a couple I've wanted to post, but, everyone seems to just flame the blue one anyway?

[MAD-3R]

Post away, and be damned any who flame you!!

[TAF]

Originally posted by jrzygrl
I've got a couple I've wanted to post, but, everyone seems to just flame the blue one anyway?

Since when? I don't think that's the case...post away!

BTW Steve...EXCELLENT pics...looks like that car had just been "Zaino'd":D

[Marauder57]

TTA....great pics.....dig the car....looks good. The Marauder plant in Canada should put up an owners cats thing on the web and put shots like that in there......could sell some cars.....Very nice!

Oh and Jrzy...put your dang blue pics up! :D

[TripleTransAm]

Originally posted by TAF

BTW Steve...EXCELLENT pics...looks like that car had just been "Zaino'd":D


Your eyes deceive you, TAF. I had just finished applying a coat of Arm&Hammer Baking Soda with a fresh BrilloPad, and used construction-grade steelwool to clean the windows. For tire dressing I applied a 1-part Gasoline/2-parts mud mixture and used a propane torch to get the bugs off the nose.

But luckily, I had a fresh coat of Zaino underneath which kept things in good shape. :D You're right, of course, I had just completed another Z6-Z2-Z6 combo a few days prior, along with the RainX. That night I took the family to the local ice cream shop, where a bird promptly took a dump on my trunk lid. I carefully extracted most of the droppings (they are very abrasive) but we'll see what it did to the trunk surface. This will be the real test for Zaino... I just recently removed a bird dropping that was on my Mother'ed WS6 after 2 weeks, and there was NO visible damage left behind.

[jefferson-mo]

Great pics Steve eh?


Cool plate number too.............:uzi:

[cyclone03]

hey that looks like my car!!!

[Crown Vic]

Very nice looking car. :D What % tint?

[TripleTransAm]

Originally posted by jefferson-mo
Cool plate number too.............:uzi:

:D

We don't have the benefit of personalized plates around here. For all my other cars previous to the '78 T/A, I just took whatever they gave me. However, when it came time to plate the '78, I asked the pretty girl at the counter if she had something more car-savvy... like, 400? (My '78 has a Pontiac 400 in it). Voila. A plate with 400 in it.

For the MM, I wanted to keep the same thing going, only now the dealer plates the car for you, in the case of a new car. I asked that they look for anything with either 281, 460 (for 4.6 liter, I guess, not the old monster block), 500 (recall the old Custom 500s of the 60s and 70s, unless they were Canadian-only Fords), 302 (for MM horsepower, not the 5.0l as some think it has), 351 (in the spirit of the old Cleveland/Windsors), etc...

They came through for me. I said it before, I'll say it again... good folks at Terrebonne Ford indeed.

[TripleTransAm]

Originally posted by Crown Vic
Very nice looking car. :D What % tint?

20% Llumar all around, thanks.

(Hey that's a sharp looking car you've got there!)

[TripleTransAm]

Originally posted by NBC Shooter
Everyone's always claimed the colorimetry of the Fuji S1/S2 kicked the Nikon D1/X/H's butt, and now I see why. The full-res shots must be incredible.


I don't even bother with the full 12 megapixel shots anymore. There's already so much to work with at 6 megapixels.

I used to think Fuji went overboard with their color manipulation... I mean, wouldn't you want to have a neutral photo all the time, especially if you could tweak it in Photoshop? Well, recently I read that they tried to mimic some of the different film out there (Velvia, etc.) and now it makes sense.

I seriously love this camera. Combined with good glass, it really rocks especially considering the smaller-than-35mm CCD allows you to use the best part of the lens without all the nastiness that can occur on the outer sections of the full frame. Below is a quick shot with the built-in flash on the 28-105mm f3.5 cheapo lens, heavily compressed and downsized, but I can promise you the colors are EXACTLY what they look like in real life.

Any of the big 3 digicams will do a great job (Canon, Nikon, Fuji), the difference between them is the little personal tweaks.

http://firebird.freeservers.com/ws6/DSCF1743a.jpg

[Crown Vic]

20% Llumar all around, thanks.

(Hey that's a sharp looking car you've got there!)

Thanx... :D

[JamesHecker]

Beeeutiful pictures! Good site too. I enjoyed the whole site.