Photos of swirls

[Jenn1270]

I noticed the other day that my honda Pilot had some very fine swirls over the entire thing. They are quite faint and a bit difficult to see because of the steel blue metallic paint. I would like to take pictures to document the process, but it is impossible to get a photo of them because you have to be in the exact right light.

I did do a test spot with my new DA MF (PCXP) starting with the finishing polish that did nothing. I then switched to the compound and it did great. I tried to get some 50/50s and you couldn't see a line to tell a difference, but all the swirls were gone out of the test area.

Does anyone have some suggestions? or should I just not worry about it and make my baby beautiful and go from there.

Jenn

[embolism]

a flash will usually highlight swirls.

faint ones like you appear to have may require slightly changing the angle of the camera a few times and taking pics of the same panel (or the purchase of a swirl finder light which gets adjusted instead)

that said, just polish up your baby and take some nice afters of the whole car for us all to admire...

[C. Charles Hahn]

Do you have a Brinkmann swirl finder light? If so it can be invaluable in trying to capture defects with a camera. It took me quite a while to learn the best technique but I have found between the light and using manual focusing with my camera it's not too horrible to adjust angles and capture before/after shots of swirls.

http://hahn-on-the.net/pictures/detailing/rsx/swirls2.JPG

http://hahn-on-the.net/pictures/detailing/rsx/swirls2gone.JPG