Racecar

Kelly Bordner

My husband owns and built this racecar. It is not completely done as you can see there are no wheels. I wanted to document the progress especially since the decals have been added to the body panels.



I wanted to shoot the car from different angles to show the car number, and various sponsors. My husband is the Bordner Welding decal which is on both sides of the car. Klotz is a main sponsor for the car, so I wanted to get shots of his decal to send to him. The car was solid red before any of the decals were put on, so all the black around the bottom and on the front of the car is vinyl. The numbers are in gold leaf and will stand out nicely in the sun or under lights for night racing.

I used the still pictures feature on my Panasonic MiniDV video camera to take the pictures. It does have a 20x Optical Zoom which gives me plenty of room to get my shot. A couple of the pictures were very dark so I used the Gimp program to adjust the Brightness/Contrast. I also played around with the Hue Saturation for a few. I cropped a couple pictures too using the Selection Rectangle Tool and then Cropping the Image. Of course I also resized all the pictures. This was the last of the three portions of this assignment that I completed, so I was able to use Gimp fairly easily. I still want to continue to use it to learn how to use all the other tools it has to offer. The hardest or most frustrating part of this project was waiting for my husband's cousin to put all the decals on the car. He does a great job, but he is very slow.