a) Absolute light curves of SN 2003G (points) with the estimated negligible host galaxy extinction adopted. The early observations by Graham et al. (2003) are shown with open symbols. The comparison light curves (solid lines) of SN 1999eb (Sect. 3) are shown vertically shifted by −0.1 mag. b) Absolute light curves of SN 2004gd (points) with the estimated host galaxy extinction of A_V = 1.0 mag; the photometry of the event was carried out with Pan-STARRS1 DR2 images as rough templates. The early observations by Moore et al. (2004) are shown with open symbols. The comparison light curves (solid lines) of SN 1999eb are shown vertically shifted by +0.6 mag.