Unless you’ve had this page bookmarked or followed a link from either my flickr of facebook-page, you’ve had to type in http://blog.naess.net to get to my blog. If you tried to type the more intuitive www.naess.net, you’ve been redirected to my (rather bad) portfolio page. Not liking the layout there, I’ve been bothered by seeing redirects from there to the blog. I’ve had ambitions to upgrade the portfolio page for ages, but never gotten around to it. Seeing as I usually post new stuff on the blog first,and to make things easier, I changed it so www.naess.net now redirects to the blog.

While I was at it, I moved the portfolio to http://portfolio.naess.net and added a couple of pictures for good measure. And I promise I’l change the portfolio page somewhere down the road.

One of the pictures I added there is from a recent shoot with a Audi A4 Allroad for Treffpunkt Magazine. Involving snow, a slammed Audi A5 tracking car and a speeding ticket, I’ll tell you all about that when the article is out in a week or two. Stay Tuned!

This is just a post to get registred at a blogging site.

Nå har jeg registrert meg på Bloggurat.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I’ve been super busy editing photos for 4 upcoming features that had deadline this past week and just finished the pictures below.

I went to Sweden last weekend for some pretty nifty ice racing action. The place was Funäsdalen, a quiet valley which got invaded by Volkswagen Audi Club Norwegen members as their annual winter meet was held. Varying from old Volkswagen Golfs to brand new Audi RS4’s the cars gave it a go at a 3,6 km long track on a frozen lake.

Shooting conditions varied as well, from blue skies to completely overcast, which made taking pictures challenging but I managed to take some 1500-2000 exposures during Saturday. The best ones are to be printed in Treffpunkt, Volkswagen Audi Club Norwegen’s own magazine, but I’ve uploaded some of the outtakes that can be viewed here.

Here are some of the shots as well, hope you enjoy them.

Jeg har hatt enorm pågang fra deltagere på treffet som vil ha bilder. Jeg kan dessverre ikke sende bilder til alle da det rett og slett blir for mye jobb. Men, er du virkelig interessert kan bildene kjøpes i full størrelse og bedre kvalitet for 300 kr pr stk. Du får da bildet tilsendt på mail. Ønsker du plakat eller annen utskrift ordner jeg det også. Ta kontakt på mail joachim@naess.net for bestilling eller priser på print.

And who am I not to oblige?

Any of my pictures can be purchaced as a print. I ship them framed or without frame. The prints seen here is A4-sized but any of the images can be printed in sizes up to 70×50cm can be made. Contact me for prices.

These are on special offer for 27 Usd without frame and 39 Usd framed. (+ shipping) Frames come in Black or White. Payment by paypal.

Norwegian customers : 99,- for print, 179,- med ramme. (+frakt) Rammene kommer i sort eller hvit. Forskuddsbetaling eller oppkrav.

Check out my images on flickr and let me know which one you’d like. You can get there by clicking the image.

…is where this picture was taken…

Digging through the archives today to make myself a portfolio book I found this shot from when we we headed down to the Worthersee Show in Austria last year. I must have missed it when I reviewed the shots from the trip, because I really feel this needs to be shared :)

I’ll try to do some photos of the portfolio book and post up some day as well.

I’ve created a Facebook Page that basically is a public profile that enables you as a reader to check out whatever is going on with my photography in your own Facebook news feed.

Now, you might already be following me through my RSS-feed here on the blog, but if you can’t be bothered with that, just add me to your Facebook news feed by clicking the image below and whatever I do on the blog will show up in your own personal feed.

This summer I was approached by the good guys behind Australian magazine AutoSalon and asked if I could do some shoots for them. The first car up is this white Subaru Impreza Wrx built and owned by A nice chap named Bjørnar here in Norway.  Being an ex-Petter Solberg company car Bjørnar sure didn’t put the cars racing pedigree to shame as he took it from a nice weekend track car to the full out race car you see here.

I met up with Bjørnar at his buddy Auduns workplace where we were to shoot the car early in September. The location was really awesome and even had an indoor train…

The car was consequently lit with three canon flashes triggered by Skyports and fired through either umbrellas or diffusers. For the most part I used two of the flashes to light the side of the car and one on either the front or rear depending on what angle I shot from. On this shot though, One was placed inside the car and the two others on either side of the car.

Never tried to shoot this car without modifiers on the flashes, but I may have avoided some of the umbrella reflections you see here had I tried.

As I said before, this car has evolved to a full blown race car over a short periode of time. This might not be all that obvious from the outside, but this picture with the rear door out of the way shows what I’m talking about…

I’m really pleased on how the pictures came out, and it looks like AutoSalon was to,  as they ran several of them in a 8 page article in their December issue.

The pictures ran with little or none  postprocessing in the magazine, but I gave them a quick edit each before I uploaded them to flickr today. You can check out the pictures on flickr by clicking them, and I you do happen to live in Australia you can probably pick up a copy of the magazine at your local newsagents.

I’ll try to get a link to the cars project thread from the owner and post it here later, so be sure to check back in here if you’re a Scooby fan.

Mark Twain once said that New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. One might be tempted to agree, but I’d still like to take the oppertunety to thank all of my family, old and new friends for an amazing year.

As for my photography, I might have thought myself, but without the support of friends and family I would never have come this far. Through all of your compliments and criticism I probably would have still been taking photos with wonky horisonts, been an f-stop underexposed or probably have left the camera at home more often than not…

So again, thank you and the best wishes for a happy new year!

Photo Courtesy of Express Monorail on flickr.

Ideally I would have posted up a snowy picture to suit the season and wish all of you a merry christmas, but I couldn’t find one, so you’ll have to make do with this old shot from when I was new to photography back in 2008.

The car in the picture was my third Volkswagen Mk1 and looked nothing like this when I bought it.  The plan was to give it a new coat of paint and some new parts and then use it as a daily, but things got a bit out of hand and it ended up way to nice for being used on a daily basis.  The wheels are Custom painted BBS RM’s with Porsche Grand Prix White and the car is lowered on FK-Coilovers.

Check out the picture on flickr by clicking on it if you want to view a larger version.

With the snow falling outside I can’t help myself longing  for the summer. seeing as it’s only december and the snow won’t disappear until say March/April this might just be a long winter…

Anyway. I keep going back to the photos I took of the silver A5 that I’ve posted several shots from here already. This was my first time shooting into the sun and some of the shots came out really good. And some not so good of course. This one I initially rejected, but I’ve developed a taste for shots like this lately and sat down with it today. There isn’t much editing done to it really. I just bumped the contrast on the car a bit, the rest is the result of pointing Canon’s 70-200 2.8L lens into the sun.  Not to sure about how I like it so I’d be happy if you guys left a comment on what you think.

Check out the photo in 1280X853 on flickr by clicking the picture.