My new 2014 Limited

jeepinAl said:

Nice Jeep, nice picture. I'm gonna guess some mangroves of south Florida, The Keys? ( if it's North Dakota...well, it's frikn' early)

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Just off of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

Nah, I'm kidding- it's the mangrove marshes around Ponce Inlet, Florida. You were pretty close. :thumbsup:

Pharmaboy said:

Nice pic. Certainly has something of an Instagram look to it?????

Makes me pine for red.....,

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In the biz we call it "the matte look." Pulls from old chemical processes and other nostalgic and impractical elements. It's fun to do though. And yea, this Jeep is a real headscratcher for me as I've historically avoided SUVs and also red cars. Now I've got both and wouldn't change a damn thing!

bill_de said:

Looks sharp! Congratulations.


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Thank ye. Cheers!

XenonDepot said:

Congratulations on the new Jeep! Let us know if you need any help regarding the HID kit installation - don't hesitate to ask. We would love to see some photos when you get it installed.

John

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Thanks. Everything should be here any day now!

Arg! My XenonDepot kit came in and one of the CBFIX modules popped on me.

Ya know, that's what I thought too, but it matched the setup of the other light exactly.

whartung said:

That's a beautiful picture, how exactly did you take it? And what post processing was involved?

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Thanks! It's pretty simple- it's one 30 second exposure with a bit of light painting on the Jeep with a Maglite and a pop-up diffuser. Shooting at high ISO increases the detail in the sky, but makes the exposure on the Jeep a bit tough because it's then much easier to overexpose. Lots of trial and error here.

For post processing, just distortion correction, toning, cloning, and tweaking.

HemiFan said:

Wow what a picture is all i have to say!

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Thanks!

lstowell said:

Just above those two trees behind your windshield, a bit below that one single start, isn't that a meteor trail aimed almost as if heading for you jeep?

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Nah, it's just an airplane that I should have cloned out. The meteors would have been much higher up in the sky.

Northland said:

How do you like that Airaid CAI? Is it a dry or oil-soaked filter? Any increase in engine sounds? Any effect on performance?

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So far, so good, I guess. It's the dry filter- performance gains are seemingly non-existent and you can really only hear it from the outside or with the windows down, which is really just fine by me. In hindsight, I might have spent the $170 a little differently, but nothing ventured, nothing gained I suppose.

CNY_WK2 said:

Since I have been looking for awhile now and this photo is amazing, what is the camera / lens you are using.

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The Milky Way shot was done on a Nikon D700 with a 16-35 f/4. The others were done with a 24-70 f/2.8.

abarbs30 said:

You've got some awesome stuff on your site. Diamond Girls looks like it was a fun project!

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Thanks. It was. . . certainly more work and stressful than you'd think it'd be. . .

LaNcE10 said:

hmmmm how come you have different headlights to the normal limited here in aus? looks like the old headlight?

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Yea. You guys get the HID headlights on all of your trim levels as standard. Here they're only standard on the Overland and Summit. They're optional on the Limited models.