Fall Photo Challenge

OK, I'm cheating with this one. I took this last year when DEEB and I did a fall run.

Great pics Mark, glad to see you're enjoying the little time we have left before the snow Rob6145

Is it snowing yet?

nice pics i drove mine all weekend!

nice pics Mark, I know a magazine publisher who would love to put some of those in print (before they're posted on the 'net). Even though the Panteras are white.

George

Thanks George, I forgot about the white. How about one of these?

or maybe...

of course red is always nice...

or even...

LOL... Thats great
I like the Orange color with those fall leaves.

Is that just photo shop?

Good color matching Mark, but I must protest, no silver Pantera!

Huh!

Mark: Yes, I did it in Photoshop. George: silver is very hard to fake and I'm just not talented enough. If you bring your car up here, I'll take the same shot.

Mark, it was a great day in southern Ontario as well. I did get the car out for a run. They are calling for snow by the end of the week so I thought I would enjoy the nice weather. Nice pictures.
Richard T.

hey mark you could use my car pic its silver and black

quote:

Mark: Yes, I did it in Photoshop. George: silver is very hard to fake and I'm just not talented enough. If you bring your car up here, I'll take the same shot.

Great color rendering. Could you provide me the color specs so I can adjust the colors on my Pantera Paint Selector accordingly?
http://www.banzairunnerpantera.com/color_selector.htm

The Playboy Pink is pretty spot on though, and I have a couple of additional colors for fun.

Thanks,
Garth

Wayne, if only silver was so easy. It's the way the highlights go white and the reflections are much more obvious that make it harder. To make silver convincing, it's a lot of retouching work, and I'd rather be driving!

Garth, I just eyeballed it on my Mac when I did them, but the RGB values (in highlighted areas) I used are:
Yellow: 255/227/10
Orange: 255/130/10
Lime: 138/205/0
Red: 230/0/0

Your color selector is pretty cool stuff.

Thanks Mark!

Awesome pics Mark. Panteras, like jellybeans. how cool. Got any other colours?

Nah, I'm holding out for your pics...

Tell me you didn't go for a blast on Monday. Did you forget the camera again?

Last Saturday, Sunday and Monday I cleaned and polished the car - inside and out. Actually, the first cleaning since Kingston.

I blasted around to warm things up and make sure all is good - and it is sooooo freakin' good to get back on the road in the Pant.

But I have been working too hard to find time to get out again. Now its dark, freezing cold and raining. A perfect opportunity for some real ugly shots.

This was my fall shot from about 2 years ago

My Fall shot today in NY ...

Ron

That's a nice collection there Ron. Nice shot too!

Thanks .. both cars a lot of fun to drive.

Ron

Here is a shot of my blue car last year, before I sold it. Notice the nice fall colors of the Arizona desert, as the colors of the cactus needles change.

Well OK we sure don't get the colors you guys get, but this picture really never changes, so we have to go visit you guys to see those beautiful colors as the trees change.

mark how do i make the pic smaller to fit

Rapid,

We'd love to have you here and show you our beautiful trees changing. But unfortunately a few short weeks later, it snows. And then it sucks big time for the next 5 months (actually being born into this we find winter kinda nice - but definitely not for enjoying your Pantera).

I'll go for the unitone Cactus in AZ deserts, the unitone brown of the CA hills, or the unitone blue of the FL oceans anytime!!

Wayne995, To make the pictures smaller on my computer, I bring up the photo of choice in Microsoft Photo Editor, then I select Image and then Resize. You will see a place with arrows up/ down, push down till you get it to the size you need. This will vary depending on the camera and the quality you chose for the picture. Then hit ok and then go to file and select "save as", and I type in right after the photo digital # "smaller" so that I will know which picture to post.

Wayne,

To add to what Kevin has explained, I like to advise people to re-size their photos so they are no larger than 640 pixels in width in order to insure they'll fit on anybody's computer display, then go to "file" and "save as" a jpeg file. JPEG is a data reduction system, it will shrink the "bit size" of a picture file very much. By using "save as" instead of "save" your original photo remains un-edited (full size) and your edited version of the photo is saved as a second, new file.

I've limited the size of photo files to a maximum of 200KB. 200 KB is very large for a jpeg file.

cowboy from hell

Ah thanks george I was resizing to 200 pixels ... I misunderstood a couple months ago .. I thought it was changed to save space.... but its still 640mb ...thats why my photos were soooo smalll.

Ron

I always size my pics at 800 pixels wide for posting here.

Well, a cold and dark morning with snowflakes in the air gave way to a gorgeous driving afternoon. I guess I can thank George for sending the Ventura sunshine!

i drove my car all over today i had a great day

I thought that was you I saw doing donuts in my back yard. Nice pic. Glad not to see any snow there yet.

Here are some more from my afternoon outing.

another on one of my favorite back roads

and

and another

and the last (for now)