Official Ferrari F12 Berlinetta Picture Thread

I like the black and silver shield on the car, is that an option from the factory?

 

Spectacular Roma!

SV

 

I believe you can spec them with a new order by mine were fitted by the dealer as my car came with the yellow ones.

 

Absolutely -- one of F's and P's absolute best creations.

 

Glad to know exactly how much that runs, as I think about it every time I pull up to a curb.

 

Stunning!
I think it will become a classic for sure.

In 30 years 1/2 people will be driving around in electric boxes...and the F12 will stir the souls of those poor slobs like a 275GTB does now.

Can't wait for my Titanio F12 to arrive!

 

BTW...anyone put CQuartz Finest finish on their cars?

 

It's paint
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The car looks nothing like that. The picture looks like hideous HDR processing and ultra fake contrast.

No grey car has reflections like that. I've had black cars with fresh polish that are less reflective.

 

Agreed. Owning a Grigo S F12, nothing I could do could make it look like that over processed pic.

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The car has certainly had its reflections pumped and the reflections in the building windows look suspect, too. Doesn't matter, though - it's not meant to be 'real', it's meant to be artistic.

 

think people are forgetting what photographers were capable of before there was photoshop. I feel kind of sorry for the student who did this portfolio, obviously spent a lot of time painstakingly setting up those shots, it must be frustrating that people look at it and think he just clicked a mouse.

 

Eh, I for one don't think there is anything that great about the photo or that it took much work at all. Pretty bad shot IMO.

 

There's a lot more to good 'post' work than just clicking a mouse. You need a proper photographic understanding to do it properly. I'm not demeaning the shot by saying it's had work (or passing judgement one way or the other), just reporting what I see/suspect as someone who does professional retouching.

 

I actually agree with that. The distinction between creativity done with a camera, studio, lights, drone, motion tracking tripod or whatever, and that done on a computer, is largely pointless. Usually those who make the distinctions have a dog in the hunt. For instance, professional photographers with thousands invested in SLRs or even medium format cameras that don't want to admit that compelling photography can be done with a smartphone. Technology has democratized the arts by lowering the price point required to level the playing field, but the need for talent and taste is if anything only stronger.

But, when people say "oh that's photoshopped," that's not what they mean, I think. They mean the creator cheated somehow. Or that what he is showing no longer reflects the "true essence" of the subject.

I think neither is true here.

 

I think that is fair comment, but in this instance the colour of the car bears simply no relationship to anything in the Ferrari range. High polished chrome to grey, pretty but to me taken too far.

 

What if it's just a wrap?

 

Grigio Ingrid. Probably wouldn't go with the black wheels or top half dash in brown.

F12 Berlinetta?Grigio Ingrid 720??39,300,000?????????Ferrari????????????
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Rear
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Interesting f12 pic
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Grigio Ingrid? Very beautiful colour. It makes the car very unique.

 

Screams for other colour wheels and calipers but Ingrid is fantastic and suits the F12 very well.

Interior is equally tasteful, even if I don't like daytona inserts.

 

It's certainly possible.

These days, though, you could take a picture of a very clean car with reflective paint that has lots of strong reflections and get a result like that simply by changing the gamma (the relationship between pixel value on the image and the intensity of the display at that point) -- i.e. changing it from linear to something else.

In the old days, we used to do that in a variety of ways, for instance by using different types of photographic paper that had a highly non-linear transfer function, to get a "high contrast" look.

I've attached a picture of my F12 to illustrate this effect. These are the same photos, the top one with a normal linear gamma curve, the bottom is with a nonlinear gamma curve of the type a high contrast paper would have had back in the day. It isn't as extreme as what the photographer did in the Facebook pics, but directionally it is similar. This isn't Photoshop btw -- no more than a change to the gamma curves, a pretty unsophisticated effect by contemporary standards.

(NB: there are all sorts of other things going on in the backgrounds of these photos, so I'm just talking about the presentation of the F12 itself).
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Beautiful -- great color, complements the lines so well.

The wheels don't really work well. Maybe the usual silver wouldn't either! What do people do with this color, wheels-wise? Match the body color?