I'm getting my car professionally photographed this weekend!
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Really looking forward to it. My wife bought me a photo session as a wedding present last year and I'm finally getting round to doing it.
The Roadster hasn't sold yet so I'll be taking it in rather than the Boxster so I'll have some quality pics to remember it by.
The place I'm going to is www.flowimages.com - looks pretty slick!
The Roadster hasn't sold yet so I'll be taking it in rather than the Boxster so I'll have some quality pics to remember it by.
The place I'm going to is www.flowimages.com - looks pretty slick!
hornetrider said:
Really looking forward to it. My wife bought me a photo session as a wedding present last year and I'm finally getting round to doing it.
The Roadster hasn't sold yet so I'll be taking it in rather than the Boxster so I'll have some quality pics to remember it by.
The place I'm going to is www.flowimages.com - looks pretty slick!
Nice. Post 'em up when you get them?The Roadster hasn't sold yet so I'll be taking it in rather than the Boxster so I'll have some quality pics to remember it by.
The place I'm going to is www.flowimages.com - looks pretty slick!
I can't wait for the professional pics, I'll post them when they arrive, they are unbelievable.
Sat here looking at it on the driveway, can't quite believe it's sold. Driving it over to Bristol to the shoot yesterday was great, it has so much character, one thing the Porsche just cannot offer
Looks fabulous eh!
matt uk said:
Maybe you should have put the photos up first, then said you were going to sell. I reckon using these studio shots in your autotrader ad would have added at least a £1,000 to the asking price 
Funny you should say that. I hadn't realised that PH ads expired after 30 days. So, my ad expired about 3 weeks ago but I didn't know, and only found out on Friday when I surfed through the MX5 classifieds and noticed my car wasn't there.
So, I relisted the ad on Friday night. I added a few of those first set of pictures above to the ad on Saturday afternoon. I got an email that evening from a guy in Kent who said he would leave at 6.30am the next morning to come and view the car.
He came, he saw, he bought it on the spot. Sold within 24 hours of listing with those studio pics.
I'm going to ask the guy to give me first refusal if he ever sells it. If he's bored with it in a few years I may just take it back and supercharge it. I'll probably be starting a family by then and will either be buying a 996/997 and having that as my only car, or getting something sensible and looking for a fun car.
Bloody hell. That looks absolutey cracking, just like the original mazda studio shots I have somewhere.
Tell me - was the car really in such amazing, A1 condition as it looks, or do the lights/posh camera/clever photoshop work make it look a bit shinier and cleaner than in real life?
Tell me - was the car really in such amazing, A1 condition as it looks, or do the lights/posh camera/clever photoshop work make it look a bit shinier and cleaner than in real life?
snotrag said:
Bloody hell. That looks absolutey cracking, just like the original mazda studio shots I have somewhere.
Tell me - was the car really in such amazing, A1 condition as it looks, or do the lights/posh camera/clever photoshop work make it look a bit shinier and cleaner than in real life?
Thanks mate! Yeah it is in superb condition, if I do say so myself, but not concourse. The car had a full carpet out respray in my ownership, but had over time picked up light marks in the paintwork which you can see when you get up close (3 feet). Tell me - was the car really in such amazing, A1 condition as it looks, or do the lights/posh camera/clever photoshop work make it look a bit shinier and cleaner than in real life?
I do look after it though - the whole car had been done over with Scratch-X to get the worst of the light scratches in the lacquer out, and then it was regularly topped up with NXT and Megs Quick Detailer.
There is very little swirling in the paint - but I suspect if it was given a proper machine polish from a detailer then it could be literally concourse on the outside. To be perfect it is in need of a retrim inside though as the bolster is coming through on the drivers side, plus the leather is aging a bit.
The lighting is designed to remove any of the imperfections that the naked eye would see, there is a light coloured suspended roof which they shine the light directly on to - no light is shone directly on to the car as that is what shows imperfections.
What's interesting in the shots is that the wheels look brand new - they do stand up to the '5 yard test' but not the '3 feet test'.
Here's the final pic I haven't already uploaded.
Could be new, couldnt it! Thats an official Mazda press pic - looks as good as, except yours is/was a nicer colour!
Bey you miss it.
I love the look, with the BB wheels, exhaust, etc etc. IF I end up keeping mine next winter and doing a rebuild thats what I'm aiming for, bit of old school charm. The japanese guys in the clubs are getting very good at it, theres some really interesting stuff going on.
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