In Photos: Mythos Black Audi R8 competition

"Audi For Life" (audiforlife)
05/13/2015 at 11:30 • Filed to: Audi, R8, Photography

After finishing a quick photo shoot for work, I headed down to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! with my gear knowing that an Audi R8 competition had recently arrived and was on display. The R8 competition that they had on the floor is in Mythos Black and has the Diamond Stitched Full Leather Package.

The Audi R8 competition comes adorn with matte carbon fiber throughout the car, with the exception of the bespoken illuminated R8 competition door sills. I really liked the large swaths of matte carbon used in the engine bay. The matte carbon fiber blade provides a subtle contrast against the Mythos Black paint of this R8 competition.

The R8 competition does get some of the R8 GT treatment in terms of a matte carbon fiber fixed rear wing and front winglets. The inclusion of those pieces has not entirely been met enthusiastically by everyone. I’m rather indifferent when it comes to the front winglets, but I do like the inclusion of a fixed rear wing; especially, when it’s done in the matte carbon. The brake calipers are also done in matte/anodized red to match the other matte-finished pieces.

Since the R8 competition production is limited to 60, one thing that I would have expected the R8 competition to have somewhere visible was the “x of 60” badge somewhere within the cabin. Alas, after looking around while taking photos, I could not find one. Shame, as both the R8 GT coupe and the GT Spyder each had their own “x of 333” badge on the R Tronic shift knob.

In addition to the seats and the door panels having diamond stitched leather, the headliner was diamond stitched Alcantara.

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DISCUSSION (10)

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Audi For Life
05/13/2015 at 11:35

Kinja'd!!!

So, that’s a no on ## of 60 badging?

Audi For Life > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
05/13/2015 at 11:38

There isn’t one on the door sills.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Audi For Life
05/13/2015 at 11:41

I see that, just commenting that your paragraph in which you mention that type of serialized badging left us without a conclusion. Did the car have a ## of ## badge or not?

Audi For Life > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
05/13/2015 at 11:45

Ugh, looks like the document didn’t merge correctly between edits. Thanks for pointing that out.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Audi For Life
05/13/2015 at 11:54

I was just lost while reading beautiful pics btw, really really deep blacks translated well

Audi For Life > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
05/13/2015 at 11:59

Thanks! Having a circular polarizer helped cut some of the glare from the wider angle shots, but a bit of post-processing was required to recover the depth of that black paint.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Audi For Life
05/13/2015 at 12:03

Nice, I used to be heavy into photography. It used to be one of my many military position tasks. I still run a couple of Nikon D-SLR’s currently but need to get a wide angle and also a multi-use higher quality lens for 1-15 feet shooting

Audi For Life > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
05/13/2015 at 12:28

I thought about picking up a 24-70 and something like an 18mm prime, but ended up settling on the 16-35mm f/4 VR (the 12-24mm was right out). It works fairly well, though you do have to be careful about its distortion profile. Lightroom does take care of most of it, but still needed a little bit of tweaking afterwards.

On the D300, I loved using the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 which doesn’t have too much distortion and I can get dangerously close to the subject.

My go-to lenses have been the new Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art and the 70-200mm f/2.8 VRII to round out my kit. Once in a while, I’ll pull out my 105mm f/2.8 VR and and 24mm PC-E lenses for special projects.

Jonathan Harper > Audi For Life
05/13/2015 at 12:35

What body you using?

Audi For Life > Jonathan Harper
05/13/2015 at 12:49

For this, I shot with a D800E, but I also have a D300, a Sony RX100 and a pair of Leicas (M9 and M6 TTL) in my arsenal.