Mind you the title does not reflect the pictures I took of this car, but the car itself. The Ferrari 360 that replaced the Ferrari F355 and featured a entirely new all-aluminum space-frame chassis a new Pininfarina body styling that broke ranks with the Ferrari models of last decade’s sharp angles and flip-up headlights, replacing them with a rounded appearance that harkened to the 1960s can only be described as just that. A work of art. Now, I’ve never had much of a relationship with Ferrari’s, as the are rarely seen here in Norway, but I guess I have to admit that they’ve been subject to more than one automotive fantasy of mine.

So, when my friend Bernhard over at Brynildsen Autospa got this 360 Modena in for a thorough detailing I just had to stop by. Now, as I said, the pictures I took of this car can’t be described as anywhere near work of art, but then again I don’t think any pictures really does this Ferrari justice. The precence it gives, from the delicate lines and from it’s sheer size isn’t easy to capture on camera. Neither is the incredible sound of the 3.6 litre V8 displayed under a glass the glass hood. It doesn’t even have to pass halfway through its 10 000 rpm range before it gives you goosebumps. Absolutely amazing!

Now, I promised you guys a full shoot on the car some time ago, but unfortunately I had to do another last minute shoot with a Jaguar that day, and by the time I got to the Ferrari it was all most midnight and we were loosing light rapidly. In addition to the fact that shooting a black car at night isn’t easy I had to go home and pack for my vacation to Spain. So you’ll have to to with these three images… sorry…

Oh yeah, while you are at it. Check out Bernhards thread on the detailing over at Detailers Club Norway to see another work of art. The text there is in norwegian, but the pictures he put up shows that work he did on the car can be described as a work of art in itself.

Earlier this year I had the chance to shoot this beautiful Audi Urquattro just outside of Oslo. Having production number 296 out of 898 produced in total the car is rare it self, but what’s rarer is the condition it is in.
Fully rebuilt with OEM parts, most parts under the car powder coated and the exterior paint wet sanded twice the car is absolutely immaculate. Sitting on H&R springs and Bilsteins shocks and rolling on 16X9 Schmidt Revolutions the car has maintained it’s rally heritage.  Also, the 1994 Audi RS2 engine swap doesn’t hurt neither the heritage or perfomance.  Beeing a most trustfull guy the owner gave us the keys, told us to have fun and left us with the car for hours. I won’t tell you how fast we went in it, but let’s just say it wasn’t the car that chickened out and let of.

This set was shot for Treffpunkt magazine and got both the cover (with the most cheesy composite sky ever) and a 4 page spread. All exterior pictures are shot with natural light and the Canon 70-200 2.8 IS and the interior and engine ones are lit with 2-3 Canon flashes. I hope you enjoy. And do browse to the bottom, there’s a bonus picture for  you guys there ;)

There are some more pictures on flickr, you get there by clicking either image. Larger ones can also be viewed there. Hope you enjoy them

I really need to add another element to my work-flow, I need to delete more pictures. You see, usually when I return home from a shoot I go through the pictures and delete the ones that really suck. Then I go through them again and flag the ones I want to put through whatever post processing necessary. That usually leaves me with enough pictures for a full set to send of to the client and post to the blog. Over the course of a year it also leaves me with several thousand pictures that never gets to serve any other purpose than take up space on my hard drive and make me spend countless hours purging my archives.

Now, going back to look at old shoots can be useful though. I can see how I’ve progressed as a photographer and how my pp-skills have evolved. And I might find an image that really should have been put to better use than just being buried deep down in the archives, like yesterday when I browsed through the images of Bjørn’s extremely clean ’55 Chevy 210.

Originally this shot wasn’t included in the batch I sent to the client, but with some minor editing I feel it came out pretty nice. Also, seeing how many hits I get from the searches on ’55 Chevy’s I want to share.

Just a couple of pics from this weekends coverage of  the infamous Gatebil event held at Rudskogen in Norway. I was there shooting for Performance Ford, and what a weekend it was!

Between breaking my 70-200 L 2.8 IS lens, buying a 25$umbrella, catching a cold and getting caught and fined 500$ by the police for speeding on my way home I managed to take some 1200 pictures. Stay tuned for more pictures.

Sirocco is a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and reaches hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe. Scirocco is also the model Marius chose when he decided he wanted an newer Volkswagen than his old trusty Mk2 VR6. I’ve shot this cars before, but it wasn’t until recently I got to do a full feature shoot with it for Treffpunkt Magazine, and I’ll give you a quick writeup on the modifications as well.

Marius bought the car brand and it was one of the first to be delivered in Norway. Marius wasted no time and started modifying his Candy White 1.4TFSI the moment he got it from the dealer. Coilovers were fitted and a set of snow tires were sourced in order to try the car out. When the snow melted 19×8,5 Porsche 997 Turbo rims replaced the snow tires and it didn’t go long before he also got hold og some massive 6pot Porsche Cayenne Turbo brakes to match the rims.

Stopping power was now adequate for Marius’ frequent visits to local tracks with the Scirocco, but he wasn’t content with the handling even though the car already sat on H&R Monotube coilovers. A set og H&R Sway bars took care of that, and the 1.4 160 bhp car surprised a lot of high power cars with its superior handling at the tracks.

Clicking on either one of the pictures will bring you to the set on flickr where you can view the pictures even bigger.
Oh yeah, also worth mentioning is that the car is up for sale. Check out the listing and hurry if you want to buy it. I’ve heard there are several others that want the car!