i love the picture quality...reflection of the sky on the car = awesome!

 

Took a day trip to Tokyo for a concert, saw a few random nice cars (no 7s though).













As for the question about how much these are photoshopped, it depends on the picture. Sometimes I'll play with the saturation of individual color bands, sometimes I'll have to use the "magic wand," which takes up a lot more time. On average though, I'd say I spend about 2 minutes on each image, adjusting exposure/brightness/contrast curves/shadows and highlights. The Olympus takes good quality pictures, it's just that the camera itself seems a little too afraid to go very extreme in saturation/contrast, which I guess is a good thing.

I am probably going to sell it and get a D200 or a 30D when I get back to the US, though.

 

loving the sexy 7's!

 

A couple shops I enjoyed were Nismo factory in Omori & Impul which is somewhere in Tokyo.

 

so is it cool to do left hand drive conversions?

and is anything USDM trendy?

 

Believe it or not, having an American car is kinda cool here. Maybe it's just because they're rare.

 

I went to Nikko today and drove Irohazaka. Absolutely unreal road, recommended to me by my mother and I also remembered it from Initial D. What they didn't show in Initial D was the fact that it's absolutely gorgeous, and is supposed to be even better looking in Autumn. It pretty much sealed the deal that I'm getting a car here. I'm thinking of a '97 STi or a Lancer Evolution IV, something with 4WD because it snows here.

Anyways, saw a 911, a neat Toyota Chaser, a few R32 GT-Rs that I didn't get pictures of, and last but certainly not least a Diablo VT that was blasting up and down the mountain. Funny enough, I saw it fly by me two times, came in my pants and then cursed myself for not having my camera out. Then, thirty minutes after seeing it, I spotted it pulled over in a rest area with the hood popped and a puddle of coolant underneath. Gotta love 10 year old Italian supercars (with neglectful, careless rich young Japanese men behind the wheel).

 

diablo on the streets of japan...awesome

 

^and in white too!

Again...nice photos!!!

 

That Diablo looks sick on the street. It's very rare to capture pictures of it in motion. Great job. Keep them coming.

 

Kevin T. Smith you sir are a supreme D-Bag. Dont buy a car in Japan unless you plan on bringing over to the states. It equals a big waste of money. Shoot me a pm . - Your master Derrick

 

Any more pix for us to enjoy?

 

Moar!

 

I'll look through the pics I took and try to find some more to post. I'm back in the US now, so I'm too busy fighting off heat stroke to do anything.

 

 

Yupz, Nor Cal = Hell till the end of the week. hehehe