Here she is:p

LOVELY!
I love grey!
ranks up there with red and blue
although for some reason i want to get the green
heck,
I love all the colors!!!!
enjoy your new car!

Purdy. But is that really your car? You must be a professional photographer to blur the background like that and get just the right glare off the windshield. Looks like a magazine shot. And where did you get that RX-8 front plate? nice touch. ;)

you guys do realize that's a model of an RX-8 right?

haha yea it does look like a model. i'd like to get it and build it.

Originally posted by The Beav
you guys do realize that's a model of an RX-8 right?

No i didn't. So instead of dissing a car that doesn't look quite right I ought to be praising a totally rad model that really took me in. is that for real? How do we get one?

LOL... i knew something wasn't quite right about that pic.. good one..

by the way, my car looks like that when its clean.. only bigger...

-john

hahaha.... got me there!

The one you're looking at is a 1:18 model from AUTOart..

Here's a review of that particular model, courtesy of www.DieCastFast.com


RX-8 Review (http://diecastfast.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=RVRX8)

You can find it available from a few online scale 18 dicast model vendors..

www.Scale18.com (http://www.scale18.com/cgi-bin/search18?index=0&from=search18a&func=search&txt=rx-8&what=1&exchange=&format=0&num=100&language=0&sort1=-1&sort2=-1&sort3=-1&sort4=-1&sort5=-1&sort6=-1&sort7=-1&sort8=-1&sort9=-1)
www.diecastfast.com (http://diecastfast.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=RX8)

or you can always try eBay.. Might be cheaper. That's where I got mine.

Ok, so I'm a little slow. What are the cues from the top photo that this is a model? (if you didn't already know it or recognize the license plate from Autoart?) In other words, what are the recognizable differences between the model and the real thing?

I'll start with this one: The fog lights aren't quite right. You should be able to see grill work/coolers down where they are mounted.

Originally posted by 8_wannabe
Ok, so I'm a little slow. What are the cues from the top photo that this is a model? (if you didn't already know it or recognize the license plate from Autoart?) In other words, what are the recognizable differences between the model and the real thing?

I'll start with this one: The fog lights aren't quite right. You should be able to see grill work/coolers down where they are mounted.

the abundance of plastic is the dead giveaway, especially the plastic tires and window trim, i dunno, i noticed it was a model the second i saw it, i guess i look at more car models than the rest of you

Also thing slike the side indicators and fit/finish of the panels.

When I first saw it , it was fairly obvious it wasnt a real rx-8(instead a model) but very close, a great photo!

Originally posted by 8_wannabe
Purdy. But is that really your car? You must be a professional photographer to blur the background like that and get just the right glare off the windshield. Looks like a magazine shot. And where did you get that RX-8 front plate? nice touch. ;)

..he just used an SLR......

How about some pics with the door/hood/trunk open?

Originally posted by Irish_in_a_RX8


..he just used an SLR......

actually you don't need an SLR to achieve such a shot.. you can do that with a digital in a macro focus mode.

Originally posted by Squidward
you can do that with a digital in a macro focus mode.

uhhhh... :confused:

whether it's celluloid or digital, SLR or P&S, all you need to blur the background (or foreground... or both) like that is have manual control of the apeture. if you turn the manual flash off and crank up the shutter speed, the apeture will have to be opened up (thus decreasing your depth of field) to allow more light in, to shorten the exposure time.

and how can you focus on something 20' away in macro mode?? that's for shots up close, where you want a 1:1 or greater aspect ratio (or whatever it's called)... so you end up with an image on your film identically sized to the size of the object you've shot.

Originally posted by 8_wannabe
Ok, so I'm a little slow. What are the cues from the top photo that this is a model? (if you didn't already know it or recognize the license plate from Autoart?) In other words, what are the recognizable differences between the model and the real thing?

I'll start with this one: The fog lights aren't quite right. You should be able to see grill work/coolers down where they are mounted.

the silver "M" emblem on the hood is not raised enough.

OK guys, I'm busted.

It is indeed a 1:18 Autoart from here:

http://www.wildcollections.com/category/auto_art_models.118autoartperformance/

Beautiful model, highly recommended.

Originally posted by wakeech


uhhhh... :confused:

whether it's celluloid or digital, SLR or P&S, all you need to blur the background (or foreground... or both) like that is have manual control of the apeture. if you turn the manual flash off and crank up the shutter speed, the apeture will have to be opened up (thus decreasing your depth of field) to allow more light in, to shorten the exposure time.

and how can you focus on something 20' away in macro mode?? that's for shots up close, where you want a 1:1 or greater aspect ratio (or whatever it's called)... so you end up with an image on your film identically sized to the size of the object you've shot.

You're right about aperture control, but in this case, he's not shooting 20' away, he's shooting less than a foot away. The digital macro mode shot would easily produce a blurred background effect in this case. I know this because I do it all the time with my digital camera.. now if it were a real car, no I wouldn't be able to do it, I'd have to use a camera with control over the focal range, like you said.

Originally posted by Squidward


You're right about aperture control, but in this case, he's not shooting 20' away, he's shooting less than a foot away. The digital macro mode shot would easily produce a blurred background effect in this case. I know this because I do it all the time with my digital camera.. now if it were a real car, no I wouldn't be able to do it, I'd have to use a camera with control over the focal range, like you said.

Squidward is right. Shot is taken with a digicam on macro, placed less than a couple of feet from the model. I didn't even meed to set it on manual, since at that distance the background (which is >30 feet away) is blured at most aperture settings. Taking the shot outside gives all the reflections and shadows you would expect of the real thing.