Awesome awesome awesome post. Thanks Ed! I had planned on doing something like this but for the Brinkmann only. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. Very informative!!! I will soon have a silver RX350 in the family (I pretty much already do) and this will be very helpful when I go to do a correction on it.
Do you correct with the lights out as well? Or just for inspection?
Ed, I cant say it better than Alex did! Fantastic post!
Thanks for the kind words Jim. The only downside with my lighting technique is that I can't utilize all the lighting mods you and I did in our garages!
The key seems to be lighting from a single direction at oblique angles so you see the shadow of the scratch. Otherwise, they get washed out when other light.
The key seems to be lighting from a single direction at oblique angles so you see the shadow of the scratch. Otherwise, they get washed out when other light.
Right on Bunky! You phrased it exactly the way I should have in the first place.
I forgot to mention one other point. You will notice that the one lamp halogen is sitting on the floor. When I get to the higher panel sections, eg roof, trunk and hood, I bring that one light with me. The light came with a spring clamp. I attach it to a microphone stand. I can then manipulate the light to the desired angle. I love the dual halogen stands but find that I cant always move the light heads around enough to get the right light.
On silver and white, I correct in the dark. The floor halogen provides enough ambient light to see what I am doing.
+1 I found this out correcting my white F-150 about a month ago.I used every light source possible and the single halogen on the floor and viewing at an angle was the ticket,couldn't believe how much i could see doing this in a dark garage.After I was finished with correcting i still had some deep RIDS I could see with light(left them any way) but couldn't see them outside unless the sun was very bright and you looked really hard to find them.
I really need to pick up a photography book. I have a DSLR... I just suck at using it.
No worries; I was fortunate enough to have learned the basics on a 35mm SLR that didn't even have autofocus as an option. If you start forcing yourself to only use the camera on manual mode you'll learn a lot really quickly.
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