Show Off Your E36 (post Pics)

Originally Posted by beamer claus

Oopsies miss posted sorry guys cars looking great the beige does look pretty sick what exhaust on the 318?

Dinan

Originally Posted by Shigeta

I was thinking of putting together a multi-part guide for different levels of photographers for shooting cars. From using a DSLR or point and shoot, to framing, to lighting, to editing...

Would you guys be interested in something like that?

It would certainly be helpful to others here, but on the other hand, there are a number of books/guides available which do exactly this. I bought a Magic Lantern guide for my DLSR, which is essentially a more comprehensive user manual, and then there are many other guides which explore composition and editing.

Originally Posted by B1MM3R

Yep

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My e34 is the same color. Sophisticated, easy to care for and damn near invisible to coppers.

Originally Posted by ReillyM3

My e34 is the same color. Sophisticated, easy to care for and damn near invisible to coppers.

Yea I love the color now.

oh yay....

Shieet. Nice shot bro!

Originally Posted by cj.surr

Shieet. Nice shot bro!

thanks man, lightroom does wonders for an unwashed car

actually i like this one better

Nice

That plate is about as straight as you are.....

Originally Posted by TheFinanceGuy

That plate is about as straight as you are.....

man, i can never get that thing aligned right. it'll never match the lines of the bumper

^ HAHA-- but fer-real, sweet shot.

Originally Posted by bMarcusW

Originally Posted by ZeGerman

Maybe next time you can install the grilles so they aren't upside down?

And also fix the indicators (side repeaters) while you're at it

Correct placement is like this:

OMG he doesnt have side trim...

why anyone thinks that would ever look good is BEYOND me

Originally Posted by Eight Thirty

OMG he doesnt have side trim...

why anyone thinks that would ever look good is BEYOND me

to be honest that entire car is a trainwreck. 2 fast. 2 furious.

he said someone will give him 1500 the more i look at it the more i say yes to 1500.

like who would even offer that w/out the car crashed?

Originally Posted by Eight Thirty

he said someone will give him 1500 the more i look at it the more i say yes to 1500.

like who would even offer that w/out the car crashed?

the things i immediately pick out are pretty obvious flaws.

1. removed the side trim and filled the holes and had the car painted
   
2. added a hideous front bumper and filled it with chicken wire mesh and is painted to match the car
3. though the front bumper is paint matched the rockers, and lower rear bumper are still painted OEM black
4. the low rise LTW inspired wing is still black, no doubt unpainted ABS plastic
5. one. piece. headlights.
6. chromed out kidneys installed upside down
7. what exactly are those chrome things where the wheels should be?
8. you can see the front brake rotors are drilled… why?
9. pretty sweet tint job on the rear windows… who's riding back there, tupac?
10. can't see the tail lights, but they're probably awful ones just like what are still on my car, or worse… LEDs
11. that hood alignment is off, its got a larger gap than the grand canyon
12. side markers installed wrong

that's all i got for now. Now I don't have to say anything mean for the rest of the year

Too bad, it appears to be a slick top.

Originally Posted by Kdoherty

to be honest that entire car is a trainwreck. 2 fast. 2 furious.

This.

Originally Posted by Shigeta

Too bad, it appears to be a slick top.

i think some body work was done because if you try to find the seam of the doors it's almost blended right into the roof, methinks its a fiberglass bondo special. slim chance of it being a slick top, and if it was, OP should be flamed to death.

edit for dumbness i just remembered that coupes have frameless windows.

Plus, I don't think the current owner of that car is the one responsible for the "customization". I could be wrong, but that was my impression.

Which one looks the best? Unedited(#1) or the edited(#2)

I think I like the unedited a bit better, but it's only because the bright blue of the sky in the edited photo overpowers the car which is the subject of the photo.
In other words in the unedited photo I'm drawn to look at the car, in the edited photo I'm drawn to look at the blue sky....
It's a cool photo regardless!

Originally Posted by Kdoherty

the things i immediately pick out are pretty obvious flaws.

1. removed the side trim and filled the holes and had the car painted
   
2. added a hideous front bumper and filled it with chicken wire mesh and is painted to match the car
3. though the front bumper is paint matched the rockers, and lower rear bumper are still painted OEM black
4. the low rise LTW inspired wing is still black, no doubt unpainted ABS plastic
5. one. piece. headlights.
6. chromed out kidneys installed upside down
7. what exactly are those chrome things where the wheels should be?
8. you can see the front brake rotors are drilled… why?
9. pretty sweet tint job on the rear windows… who's riding back there, tupac?
10. can't see the tail lights, but they're probably awful ones just like what are still on my car, or worse… LEDs
11. that hood alignment is off, its got a larger gap than the grand canyon
12. side markers installed wrong

that's all i got for now. Now I don't have to say anything mean for the rest of the year

Honestly it would be very very easy to make that car likeable. You couldn't put the side trim back on it, but a nice front bumper, wheels, lights, etc. would make it a perfectly fine car to drive by my standards.

Originally Posted by akibo

And also fix the indicators (side repeaters) while you're at it

Correct placement is like this:

I looked at that like 5 times wondering if it was mine lol.