Black Lexus RX350 Fully Detailed

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Znig22

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This was a customers vehicle that had been machined washed to death, and for the interior she thought bugs were living in her car and had poured flea killer all in it, thinking it would kill the imaginary "parasites".. That's the customer description now onto the vehicle description.

Black, deep swirls, remnants of buffer trails, the vehicle had evidence of being keyed, (noted in one photo).. Tons and tons of rock chips and acid rain and oxidation.

As for the interior, normal wear and soil levels, way to much flea powder (was a pain to remove)

Method Used:

Exterior:
Foam Cannoned washed
Medium grit clay mitt
Flex 3401
Menzerna fg400
Orange lake country
Menzerna pf4000
white lake country
porter cable 7424
red lake country used with WGTS 3.0
The engine was detailed as well with my vx5000 but i forgot to snap pictures.

Interior:
Vapor System VX5000 (headliner, plastics,leather)
Mytee Lite 2 Extractor
Complete Aerospace 303 applied throughout

This was my first time using my new Nikon d3200 and honetsly the reason for the lack of before pictures were because i forgot the camera and my girlfriend brought it to me while working, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
@tdekany I played with a lot of different settings on this car just trying to get the best photos. I wasn't happy with the full vehicle shots. Any suggestions on those would be awesome.

This was a fun car. I really like the major day and night differences that can be obtained with beat and battered black vehicles.
 
Znig22 said:
@tdekany I played with a lot of different settings on this car just trying to get the best photos. I wasn't happy with the full vehicle shots. Any suggestions on those would be awesome.

This was a fun car. I really like the major day and night differences that can be obtained with beat and battered black vehicles.
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Sure - but first thing first. I see that these pictures are very small. If you have a D3200, that is 24 megapixels. You are throwing away 90% of the resolution, unless I am missing something. Shoot the largest size the camera can take.Which is 6016 x 4000

Tell me exactly what settings you had the camera on with the full pictures you posted.

Also, don't feel bad, your first 10000 pictures are your worst.

Here is a detailer who is equally good with both a polisher and a camera.:dblthumb2:

Flickr: autodetailer's Photostream
 
Znig22 said:
I really like the major day and night differences that can be obtained with beat and battered black vehicles.
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Good job! I recently did my Mom's (same car, but worse on the outside) and was really happy with the results. For a newbie, it was very gratifying to see that night and day difference. :)
 
Wow! His work and facility is nothing short of amazing! I originally had photos at full size but the forum wouldn't allow me to upload them so I had to resize them in windows photo manager, which gave them that grainy look. In the full size pictures I set the camera in landscape mode with factory settings and took the pictures like that because they weren't turning out like I would have liked them. I think part of my problem is that I don't have a tripod. It's on order.
 
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