I recently added some factory fog lights to my car and decided to detail it and get some new photos of it. It was a beautiful day and I think the photos came out pretty decent. My car didn't come with fog lights, but everything was there to hook them up; I didn't even have to take off the front bumper to install them.

Anyway, here are the photos:

http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8detail10.jpg
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8detail9.jpg
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8detail.jpg
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8detail2.jpg
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8detail3.jpg
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8detail4.jpg
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8detail5.jpg
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8detail6.jpg
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8detail7.jpg

Clean and shiny black cars= Pimptastic.

Looking good, are you keeping the look stockish?

I really like the one on the red bricks. Looks good!

You should get stealth turn signals, though. :)

Me = biased

Good Pics. good job.............

Looking good, are you keeping the look stockish?

I've only had the car since February which explains it still looking stock. I'm not sure what I want to do with it to be honest. Nothing major will happen until it is paid off though, that is for sure :)

Nice color reminds me of my first RX8 BB.

Get that car low to the ground and your look will get aggressive along with those wheels. Very stealthy and ready to pounce.

Looks like glass!! Cool pics...

http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8detail10.jpg
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8detail9.jpg

How do I detail my car like that? What do you use to get that shine?

Wow looks great!

A little tip for photographing black (or very dark colored) cars: when something black fills the frame—like in your first two shots—don't use the exposure that the camera sets; it'll "wash out" the blacks so that they come out dark grey in the photo.

Instead, adjust your exposure so that it underexposes a couple of stops. (Even auto-everything cameras let you change the exposure. It's where you see a "scale" that looks something like this:

+ • • • o • • • —

To underexpose the picture, manually adjust the exposure so that it's towards the negative end of the scale.

(The reason for this is that cameras assume the picture you're taking contains light and dark things that average out to 'grey'. Which works for most pictures (like your wide shots). But when the subject is all black (or all white), you have to override exposure or else the camera will make the subject appear greyish.)

White cars are the opposite. To get them to come out white instead of grey, you would overexpose.

Just my 2¢.

^nice tip. i better go take pics one day. haha

car looks clean man.

lookin good, keep it clean!

Superb my friend, just superb!

And your car color choice was spot on. ;)

Then again, I may be a bit bias.....:p:

How do I detail my car like that? What do you use to get that shine?

I use Zaino Brothers products on the car.

New Yorker,

I will remember that next time I take photos. Hopefully they will come out a little nicer!



Someone on my truck forum made the car look chrome. :hahano:

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/1750/quickchoply3.jpg

nice, looks really clean.
The chrome effect is cool, looks like something the T2000 would drive from Terminator 2

what was the process of detailing? zaino brothers right?

It's actually chrome. didn't you see the post above?

Ha ha

im jealous of your front bumper -- i have a BB RX8, LOVE it but after 45K long hard miles it looks like someone sandblasted my front. I use Zaino as well - the BEST

Nothing is better then a clean black car -- this is my first one, and possibly my last. I love it more then any color but its too much work to keep clean.

looks like another satisfied Zaino user! :D:

lookin good - brilliant, even!

that 1st pic is sic w/the roof reflecting in the hood.

nice to hear the fog install was easy - I really want to get a set.

don't forget to do the foglight rewire so you can turn them on without the headlights.

looks like another satisfied Zaino user! :D:

The Zanio master would know.

He's been a Zaino user for years and years. The car looks amazing in person. Reflects like glass.

It's been prompting me to keep mine clean all the time, too. We need to go take more pictures, since we both have our fogs, and I now (finally) have my clear corners. It's rained every single day since he took those pictures, so no go.

The chrome car made me LMAO. Reminds me of those Dub City all-chrome Escalades at K-Mart.

Wow looks great!

A little tip for photographing black (or very dark colored) cars: when something black fills the frame—like in your first two shots—don't use the exposure that the camera sets; it'll "wash out" the blacks so that they come out dark grey in the photo.

Instead, adjust your exposure so that it underexposes a couple of stops. (Even auto-everything cameras let you change the exposure. It's where you see a "scale" that looks something like this:

+ • • • o • • • —

To underexpose the picture, manually adjust the exposure so that it's towards the negative end of the scale.

(The reason for this is that cameras assume the picture you're taking contains light and dark things that average out to 'grey'. Which works for most pictures (like your wide shots). But when the subject is all black (or all white), you have to override exposure or else the camera will make the subject appear greyish.)

White cars are the opposite. To get them to come out white instead of grey, you would overexpose.

Just my 2¢.


Very good suggestion, thank you! I tried to underexpose the photos some tonight.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/reflection.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/foglightson.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8dusk.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/Y2KSierra/rx8open.jpg

are those TSW nogarus?

real nice pcitures on the last set too?

Which fog lights did you go with? The pic looks like the blue tint, but it could be multi-color. Mine came with a set, but I've thought about switching them out with the blue or multi-color.

They are blue tint. The wheels are TSW Nogaros. Thanks for everyone's comments! Hopefully next time I post photos the car will be lowered.