Are you doing all this more or less live, or has much work shown now been done many days ago? Just curious as I know how much time editing and uploading takes. Very Interesting thread, keep it coming.
I did the cleaning last Sunday afternoon: I guess was about four hours from getting the washer / jacks out of the garage to having the car done and back on the ground. This was purely the jet-wash stage, so nothing other than dirt-removal.
The gear-shifting was yesterday as was a great big garage tidy as it was wrecked from my efforts in re-commissioning the Forester S Turbo the week before.
PYXi's now in the garage so weather is no issue and I can just pick off the jobs as I fancy. Whilst technically there's no rush to crack on (I don't need the car as have others that are taxed and on the road), I do like to keep up some sort of momentum otherwise you lose that initial enthusiasm. Once a project stalls it's very hard to fire yourself back up again.
As for editing and so on, I'm shooting on a compact camera (Lumix DMC-TZ100) and generally just leaving it in smart auto mode. I'm using the lowest res, smallest size and it's filing the pics as JPEG's. All I'm doing is picking out the shots that are appropriate, cutting them to 1/4 size and popping them in a sub-file labelled 'Small'. It's all pretty quick and I'm only using the Edit function in Paint as it opens so fast.
Overall, it's very painless. I do have a DSLR (an old D200) which never gets moved out of RAW, but it's all a bit clunky for this sort of thing. Anyway, I've no idea how it works
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The little Lumix is fab though: a really good camera, wide range of talents and bought for a trip to Canada in 2016. Was about £500 I think, but some of the Canada shots made it worth it (plus, I always have it with me). I literally nearly trod on the frog: he was just near the edge of a path, very small and from a human height, not that interesting. I did my best with him anyway and simply couldn't believe it when the picture was brought up on my brother's huge TV. Went all the way to Toronto (only commercial flight I've ever been on), and my best picture was a one of a frog that I could probably have found 8000 miles closer to home ... I should probably say it was nice to see my brother though ? BTW, on a big screen you can see the veins in the wing of that tiny fly that's stuck to the frog's nose. Modern sensors are just incredible.