mostly automotive - my photos

mar1u5 · Sep 23, 2009

Thank you, I really appriciate that! I've thought about trying to gather up a bunch of people for photoshoots in a 2 week period in the US, and fly over as a vecation and just photograph my brains out (and buy some sweet lenses while I'm there

) but it'll require a lot of planning, cash and... well... most likely I'll never manage to pull my finger out of my you-know-what and get around to doing it.. But it's a nice thought

dtzitko · Sep 23, 2009

I like your style man, and your taste in cars. Loving the E30 M3 on your website. You wouldn't happen to be on twitter would you?

mar1u5 · Sep 23, 2009

Thank you. I'm not on twitter because I've reached that point in my life when everything's mostly about "the same old routine" day inn and day out. As entertainment it would fail miserably, but as a cure for excitement it would totally rock! :lol:

dtzitko · Sep 23, 2009

Ah, I was hoping you might be one of the types that talks about updates/new photos and such.

Your work has inspired me, particularly this one: www.mariusaasheim.com

jetblack · Sep 23, 2009

Very nice!!

mar1u5 · Sep 24, 2009

dtzitko: There's really too little stuff going on to warrant any kind of blog or twitter page. Even doing this for free, I'm having a hard time getting cars for photoshoots, so I've been trying for a while to spark an interrest in other kinds of subjects so I can shoot more, but havn't found anything yet (as you can see on my site, there's a few random things there

)

Jetblack: Thank you.

DSLR noob · Sep 24, 2009

Wow. I hope to get on a level akin to yours someday. With my own techniques and processes of course! (I agree that copying another photographer's work is a bit uninspired)

mar1u5 · Sep 26, 2009

Thanks DSLR NOOB, and I really like your additude about processing!

Over to someting else...

Went to one of (if not THE) biggest camera stores in oslo, and lost my mind. Well, I'd already lost my mind before I went there because for some strange reason I had to have a 500mm lens. It just grew on me this week, the sensation that my life would not be complete without it.

And seeing as my job doesn't pay that much, I could only afford a sigma 150-500mm and a sigma x2 teleconverter. And in no way shape or form am I trying to imply that it's a cheap lens. But compared to other lenses with a 500mm reach it's a steal

And when I write "just bought", I mean JUST bought. I came home, ran up the nearest hill, slapped everything on my D300 and took a series of test shots that in no way reflect the potential of the lens (but does a great job of showing how crap things can be when you don't pay any attention to anything and just do things as fast as you can)

And before you ask "what are you going to photograph with it?", let me assure you that I havn't got a clue. No idea, at all. It's a part of my "buy something and put it to good use" challenge. It's fun just to loose your mind sometimes.. Very expencive, but fun

As I said, these are just some test shots, poorly put together and shot in a hurry because I was really looking forward to seeing the reach of this lens, so - yes - they're crap. The editing is crap aswell, so don't complain about the variation in color etc on the pictures because I threw these together from RAW files in a hurry. This is just to show the reach of this lens.

16-85mm @ 16mm - this is the scene:

Faaar away there's a farm. Lets take a look :

16-85mm @ 85mm:

150-500mm @ 150mm:

150-500mm @ 250mm:

150-500mm @ 500mm:

150-500mm @ 500mm with x2 teleconverter:

(I forgot to manually focus this shot, so it's a bit iffy...)

I was a bit dissapointed by the results with the teleconverter, as I imagined 1000mm would give me a lot more reach compared to the 500mm shot. But other then that, I'm looking forward to testing this lens out more seriously.

And the OS (vibration reduction) on this lens is loud, and it sounds horrible. It's like some small mechanical animal is dying inside of it. But it works.

polymoog · Sep 26, 2009

Nice series to give an idea of what the 150-500 can do! I've been wanting that lense for a while as well.

I think there is quite a difference between 500mm and 1000mm and I was also impressed by the light and the image quality, I expected the most zoomed in pics to be darker and grainier. Did you use a tripod?

austriker · Sep 26, 2009

WOW! thats insane!!! now you dont have to ask permission before taking photos of peoples cars

mar1u5 · Sep 26, 2009

polymoog: I had it on a tripod to make the whole ordeal easier. But the ground was covered in moss, so I it wasn't all too stable, so I had the OS on for these shots.

austriker: Paparazzi photoshoots?

Focused · Sep 26, 2009

Stunning image. Some gorgeous wheels in this thread beautifully rendered.

mar1u5 · Sep 27, 2009

Thank you!

Got up at 6 this morning and had planned hours and hours of shooting with both the new lens and old gear. Had to cut it short because my body objected to beeing treated to taco's and vodka (not at the same time) last night, and then having nothing but a red bull for breakfast before going out this morning. In hindsight, I can see that it wasn't such a good idea.

Aaaanyway.. Managed to capture a freaky building (the noise is added on purpose on this image):