Okay, so, after huge delays, my responses to the comments about the Quadrifoglio Alleggerita article:
Arsenal-squared - Thanks both of you, and to '92, the last image was always my favourite, I knew it'd be the article closer!
Dan_ - Thank you, sir! I guess all the years of reading Evo (wow, it's been around 9 years) has trained me for most of it
SVX - Nah, no photocopy... I scanned it
C_F - You're too kind, about both this and the current update.
Diabolical - Actually, yes, though it's been on the backburner for a while now due to that whole pesky real-life thing. A potential custom layout for a magazine might debut around these parts; the thing is, it'd borrow very heavily from Evo anyways since I love the aesthetic they've cultivated. As for their forum response... no matter, some of this stuff makes very useful portfolio additions
MR - Gallery updates have been too long apart; this probably was due to the dread I felt trying to fill in the rest of the articles from that magazine cover. I have more updates planned for the near future, that will still have fun presentation and themes like this current GT1 one, but I'll not be bound by the magazine layout, at least for a while. Hope this makes up for it!
Mog That's what I was aiming for... the magazine sitting on the desk during the process certainly helped, then!
GPR - Thank you sir, it's great to hear that coming from you 👍
Sprite &
725 - Thank yous to both of you crafty veterans. Always glad to hear from you both
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Rev - First quibble; I agree! Sadly, I had all the shots in the bag before I realized that, and couldn't replicate the weather I had during the original shoot for a second try. Odd that I ended up with what I did, since the front 3/4 is perhaps my favourite angle of the car. As for the second... curses! I knew I need to run over things one more time!
emptysoul &
bmxmitch -
Gracias!
Nick - Yeah, the text not being justified was something I looked into... I'll explain later. Specifically, it ties into the image bleeding into the other page, and the Italian flag motif extending to the page edge; all these features were in the hardcopy of Evo I had on my desk (it was an article on the evolution of the M3, actually, that was used as the primary source of inspiration). Evo's text tends to do the same thing, their images quite regularly bleed over a bit to the other pages, and the ///M colours had went past the usual boundaries on that article, so I decided to stick with it. These things might or might not change if I do go forward on my own layouts
AOS- - Thank you, thank you!
TVRFF - The lighting was a stroke of luck at Monza, hooray for variable weather that doesn't end up in rain, bizarrely!
Yev - Slipshots is not held responsible for damaged clothing during viewing! Actually, yes, I do a fair amount of photography in real life, mostly portraiture stuff, and not nearly enough automobile work. So I get my kicks through GT5.
JohnnyBravo - Thank you! I'll be sure to start updating more regularly to give people more reason to check!