It's Spring in Oregon! [More 245 pics, hooray :p]

Disclaimer: I am not a photographer. I really wish I was. I love photography. I really wanted better color out of these pictures, but I had to rely on Photoshop just to get them where they are now. The camera I was using is my mom's...and it's a "Vivitar" ....if that tells you anything about how crappy it is. Anyway, maybe someday I'll have a real camera!


So today I washed the car, and repainted the grill/headlight surrounds/front spoiler. I didn't change the actual paint color, just re-touching.

Anyway, I found my OVT stickers that I bought probably more than a year ago and I played around with it. I haven't decided whether I like it yet, so we'll see if I keep it there.

Onto the pictars!





















...and look at these trees!






Here's an outtake. WARP SPEED!

(Note to everyone: Hold still when you take pictures )




Comments/suggestions/hatemail encouraged and appreciated.

Inc3pt said:

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Favorite pic of the bunch. And that warp speed one made me dizzy....lol


But, very nice!

Those are nice pics...And a NICE wagon,TSW hockenheims?

Looks great,and I like the sticker

You son of a bitch, you're blocking the gate

j/k, even though you are for the sake of good shots.

The pics and the car look awesome. I love those TSW's.

240_Richmond said:

Favorite pic of the bunch. And that warp speed one made me dizzy....lol...But, very nice!

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superboosted said:

Those are nice pics...And a NICE wagon,TSW hockenheims?

Looks great,and I like the sticker

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Thanks guys, and yeah. 17x8 TSW Hockenheims. I love them.

Brickster151 said:

You son of a bitch, you're blocking the gate

j/k, even though you are for the sake of good shots.

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Someone died while I was taking these pictures because the fire department couldn't get through.

such a hot wagon man... w/ a really loud BOV to boot! those wheels though... so jealous!

lookin good man! cool pix

rclark said:

such a hot wagon man... w/ a really loud BOV to boot! those wheels though... so jealous!

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Mwahahahahahahahahha I love that BOV.

crazynlazycolombian said:

lookin good man! cool pix

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Thanks

This is the first time I can say a big-nose 240 doesn't need a flathood. Nice work.

SO NICE! Your 245 is my favorite on the board. The black bits look OEM, like a factory 245R...

car looks good

Are those rims 17's or 18s? Cause that would be a deciding factor for my car cause your car is Hot!

And love the shots, is it just me or are all RWD Volvo owners photographers.

SwedishFish said:

This is the first time I can say a big-nose 240 doesn't need a flathood. Nice work.

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Thanks. Yeah, normally I'm a "omg flathood on everything" kind of guy...but I haven't on this car because for some reason, I just love the way it looks so damn much.

OnlyWagons said:

SO NICE! Your 245 is my favorite on the board. The black bits look OEM, like a factory 245R...

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Thanks but if mine is your favorite, clearly you haven't seen that many 245's yet.

crazy0000 said:

Are those rims 17's or 18s? Cause that would be a deciding factor for my car cause your car is Hot!

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They're 17's. I'd love 18's, but these look "big enough". The thing is, some wheels look fine in 17" and some still look too small to me. It depends on the "style" of the wheel, whether it has a lip, how the spokes are shaped, etc. Anyway, post pictures when you get new wheels.

Your car looks great, only thing I'd change is the amber reflectors in the corners. Nice work though.

Inc3pt said:

Thanks but if mine is your favorite, clearly you haven't seen that many 245's yet.

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I'll amend that...it's my favorite *silver* 245





Oh yeah, and silver's the best. Hot car, looks great.

Inc3pt said:

Disclaimer: I am not a photographer. I really wish I was. I love photography. I really wanted better color out of these pictures, but I had to rely on Photoshop just to get them where they are now. The camera I was using is my mom's...and it's a "Vivitar" ....if that tells you anything about how crappy it is. Anyway, maybe someday I'll have a real camera!

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Couple of things,

Cool Pics, forget that "I am not a photographer" crap, you have a good eye, keep using it.

About the Vivitar...a camera is just a light tight box that gathers photons and concentrates them on a fixed piece of light sensative material or an image sensor, it's a tool. Nothing more and nothing less. Some tools are better for the task at hand than others, but I have seen great photographs shot with $20 plastic Holga cameras and absolute junk shot with $25,000 worth of digital hardware.

The only technical issue I would have with some of your pics is the white balance, that is unless you were going for an overall "cool blue" look.

Short story...when I entered Brooks Institute of Photography in 1980, I was very poor and only had a Vivitar SLR with a couple of lenses. Most of my classmates were trust fund babies who had all the latest and greatest gear and it was a bit intimidating at first. I soon learned that it was all about capturing the image, not how you captured it, and I vowed to do the best I could with the tools I had. At the end of the first year, I was the one who recieved the "First Year Student Award" for my work. It was only then that I allowed myself the luxury of a used Canon SLR (I did buy all new lenses though) which I still have and use today.

Don

valvesprung said:

Your car looks great, only thing I'd change is the amber reflectors in the corners. Nice work though.

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Those will be ditched as soon as I find something nice to replace them. Maybe euro lenses, I liked the top clear, bottom orange look. Who knows though. It's my daily driver, so I don't put a ton of work into it. Trying to save for the project.

don hodgdon said:

Couple of things,

Cool Pics, forget that "I am not a photographer" crap, you have a good eye, keep using it.

About the Vivitar...a camera is just a light tight box that gathers photons and concentrates them on a fixed piece of light sensative material or an image sensor, it's a tool. Nothing more and nothing less. Some tools are better for the task at hand than others, but I have seen great photographs shot with $20 plastic Holga cameras and absolute junk shot with $25,000 worth of digital hardware.

The only technical issue I would have with some of your pics is the white balance, that is unless you were going for an overall "cool blue" look.

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Thanks Don. I know that good photographers can still make a good picture with a bad camera, but I still think I need lots of practice. Maybe someday I'll make a career of it. The white balance issue is part of the problem with the camera that I couldn't correct. Some of them I purposefully desaturated (#3, #5) and some of them were color tinted on purpose (blue on #6, #7 reddish on #8) but most of them were supposed to be 'normal' color-wise but Photoshop can only help so much.

That is a damn slick looking wagon. Great pics!

"OVT" sounds like the noises that Jawas make.

Cool pics, cool wheels.

Somehow I knew this thread was yours, even before I scrolled down further to see who started it...

Looking good Tye! Dunno about the OVT sticker there, just seems kinda random and doesn't go with anything, IMO.

And, uhm, next time you wash your car and go out for pictures, call me, k? I want to wash my car too, and have pictures taken as well. And we can both try to take good pictures, and then pick from the better, lol. My 244 needs some good pictures taken of it, it's VERY deprived of good, while clean, pictures. Actually, any good pictures at all.