Paris : F430 spider, Quattroporte, Gallardo, DB9, E30 M3 ...

[Darkel]

Last week I spent 5 days in Paris, a few people told me "it's not the good period to go there, there's no really nice cars there, they all went to south of france" and so on ... everything was planed and well, it can only be better than here :bah:

So I went there and I saw, I saw the dark and narrow streets (+cloudy weather) which make your digicam go crazy, and the polarizer didn't help at all, the automatic mode always sets a shutter speed around 1/40s- 1/50s and an aperture of f2.8, first time I noticed that I was like "omg, that's gonna be a long long long photoshoot" ... and that was :shock:
As if it wasn't enough, the trafic is amazingly dense, normally I would've gone to the other side of the street in order to take a proper shot, that was nearly impossible there :?
To finish with, no special car, just the regular bunch of mercs ...

Well, all that complaining to tell you how disappointed I finally was, I could not do what I wanted to do and here's the result, typical beginner pics in some cases so don't expect anything great (I'm planing another Monaco trip next summer hopefully) :roll:


A "gunmetal grey" F430 spider
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/3836/dsc035900du.th.jpg (http://img352.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035900du.jpg)http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/5269/dsc035917up.th.jpg (http://img352.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035917up.jpg)http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/2926/dsc036033jm.th.jpg (http://img352.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036033jm.jpg)http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/51/dsc036069ci.th.jpg (http://img352.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036069ci.jpg)

A well-known one
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/9730/dsc035410ni.th.jpg (http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035410ni.jpg)http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/7571/dsc035429cn.th.jpg (http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035429cn.jpg)

348
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4154/dsc035817rn.th.jpg (http://img294.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035817rn.jpg)

360
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/3633/dsc035929fk.th.jpg (http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035929fk.jpg)

Quattroporte
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/1087/dsc035547nu.th.jpg (http://img200.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035547nu.jpg)http://img303.imageshack.us/img303/4208/dsc035551sa.th.jpg (http://img303.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035551sa.jpg)http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/6660/dsc037019mu.th.jpg (http://img361.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc037019mu.jpg)http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/9094/dsc037038rm.th.jpg (http://img361.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc037038rm.jpg)

Coupe
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1903/dsc037078fi.th.jpg (http://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc037078fi.jpg)

Gallardo
http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/4139/dsc036528ux.th.jpg (http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036528ux.jpg)http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/8638/dsc036587ut.th.jpg (http://img233.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036587ut.jpg)http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/8826/dsc036260ue.th.jpg (http://img332.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036260ue.jpg)http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/1194/dsc036275hq.th.jpg (http://img332.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036275hq.jpg)

DB7 Volante
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/5218/dsc035359di.th.jpg (http://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035359di.jpg)

DB7 AR1
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/5632/dsc035370ti.th.jpg (http://img37.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035370ti.jpg)

DB9
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/5616/dsc036142qq.th.jpg (http://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036142qq.jpg)http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/6628/dsc036150vc.th.jpg (http://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036150vc.jpg)http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/5002/dsc036162fl.th.jpg (http://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036162fl.jpg)http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/5438/dsc035656ik.th.jpg (http://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035656ik.jpg)

Bentley Continental R
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9298/dsc037182ub.th.jpg (http://img199.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc037182ub.jpg)http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/5308/dsc037198sz.th.jpg (http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc037198sz.jpg)

Continental GT
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/83/dsc035864dw.th.jpg (http://img361.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035864dw.jpg)http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/2614/dsc035883uo.th.jpg (http://img361.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035883uo.jpg)http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/5404/dsc037009sd.th.jpg (http://img361.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc037009sd.jpg)http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/951/dsc036479bq.th.jpg (http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036479bq.jpg)
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/2544/dsc036482vv.th.jpg (http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036482vv.jpg)

Mercs
http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/2130/dsc037103zt.th.jpg (http://img364.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc037103zt.jpg)http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/5781/dsc036942kh.th.jpg (http://img364.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036942kh.jpg)http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/8893/dsc035857wn.th.jpg (http://img354.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035857wn.jpg)http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/5570/dsc037099nx.th.jpg (http://img354.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc037099nx.jpg)
http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/9973/dsc036305kr.th.jpg (http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036305kr.jpg)

E30 M3
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/6052/dsc036409pq.th.jpg (http://img198.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036409pq.jpg)

905 @ Peugeot's show room
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/9493/dsc036112sq.th.jpg (http://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036112sq.jpg)

RS6 Plus
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/6227/dsc036313nq.th.jpg (http://img356.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036313nq.jpg)

Phantom (notice the weird location :mrgreen: )
http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/382/dsc036390pj.th.jpg (http://img364.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036390pj.jpg)

Impossible to take a proper pic of this stunning B12 Alpina (the owners were just looking at their map)
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/3350/dsc035623is.th.jpg (http://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035623is.jpg)http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/3968/dsc035635jw.th.jpg (http://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035635jw.jpg)

RR Silver Spur II
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/882/dsc035528os.th.jpg (http://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035528os.jpg)

996 C4S and 997S
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/6131/dsc035828pw.th.jpg (http://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035828pw.jpg)http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/632/dsc035843ra.th.jpg (http://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc035843ra.jpg)

Funny thing :D
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/4959/dsc037042bo.th.jpg (http://img356.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc037042bo.jpg)

As a conclusion ...
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1997/dsc036600rc.th.jpg (http://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc036600rc.jpg)

[TT]

I know how hard it could be to shoot cars in Paris, but the amount is always good, so well worth the trip IMO :D

You saw some nice cars and managed some nice pics, everybody should be happy :)

[Herceg]

niiice pics man!!!!! was that just one day or like a week trip??? b/c man those are some sweet pics :mrgreen: thanks a lot, awesome pics!

[ARMAN]

Weard color for M3(thats the FIRST pics I was searching in your post :mrgreen: ) but its still an M3 :wink: 850 ALPINE looks fantastic IMO :shock: Thanx for hunts Darkel :wink:

[dingo]

Don't be so harsh on yourself - the pics are fine and some excellent cars too! :D

The first F430 is great - perfect colour for it! I also really like the yellow Gallardo, they are special to me now. :wink:

Thanks alot, and your Monaco trip is something to be excited about. :D

[a007apl]

Tkx for the LBs pics :mrgreen:

[Darkel]

was that just one day or like a week trip???
As I wrote in the first post it was a 5 days trip :wink:

Don't be so harsh on yourself
Looks like I was too pissed off when I wrote that, I have some plans for the next 2/3 weeks (cars related obviously) so it could and will be better then :)


The first F430 is great - perfect colour for it! I also really like the yellow Gallardo, they are special to me now. :wink:

Yep, that's my favorite color, I'd loved a red leather interior though :D
Concerning the gallardo pic (both), I tried a new photoshop trick to improve them (selected the highlights, pasted them in a new layer and set the mode "multiply", it's like another filter :good: it worked quite good here, that's why the yellow looks so hmmm ...golden )

[Schwalbe]

Thanks Darkel for the pix from la Ville Lumière. :D

I particularly like the RS6+ with the Tour Eiffel behind and the yellow Audi Gallardo... oups I mean Lambo Gallardo. :P

[Wutputt]

Great catch though for a bad period the catch cars in Paris ;)

AR1 :love: There are only a handful in Europe! Seeing an Alpina B12 on the road is a rare coincidence as well.

[raphaelws]

I really loved that F430's color

[stmoritzer]

thanks Darkel, this was one of the better post (7458 to browse:wink:) I saw since I came back from vacation.

Well done!