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


A well-known one


348


360


Quattroporte


Coupe


Gallardo


DB7 Volante


DB7 AR1


DB9


Bentley Continental R


Continental GT



Mercs



E30 M3


905 @ Peugeot's show room


RS6 Plus


Phantom (notice the weird location )


Impossible to take a proper pic of this stunning B12 Alpina (the owners were just looking at their map)


RR Silver Spur II


996 C4S and 997S


Funny thing


As a conclusion ...

[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

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 thanks a lot, awesome pics!

[ARMAN]

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

[dingo]

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

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

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

[a007apl]

Tkx for the LBs pics

[Darkel]

Originally Posted by Herceg was that just one day or like a week trip???

As I wrote in the first post it was a 5 days trip

Originally Posted by dingo 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

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

Yep, that's my favorite color, I'd loved a red leather interior though
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.

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

[Wutputt]

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

AR1 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) I saw since I came back from vacation.

Well done!