Posted on 16 May 2023
By Marsel van Oosten Introduction Last month, I spent two weeks on the frozen sea ice along the coast of Baffin Island, Canada, searching for female polar bears who had just emerged from their dens with their newborn cubs. Knowing that encounters would likely not be closer than 100 met > Read More....
Posted on 1 April 2021
Having been involved in the global introduction campaigns for both the Nikon D850 and the Z7, I can honestly say that working with the Z9 — Nikon’s new flagship mirrorless camera — has been nothing short of a life-changing experience. For the past month, I have extensively tested the Z9 in rea > Read More....
Posted on 22 January 2020
The results are out, and I’m very happy to share that one of my images was successful in the Travel Photographer of the Year awards. With over 20,000 images submitted from 144 countries, it’s reason to be cheerful :-) What makes this one extra special for me is because so much thought we > Read More....
Posted on 20 October 2019
Every photographer has a bucket list. Or sometimes even two: one with locations, and one with specific subjects. For many years my two bucket lists had something in common – both the #1 location and the #1 subject were in the same country: Yemen. Some 240 ki > Read More....
Posted on 15 May 2019
I’m very proud to announce that I am now officially a Nikon Ambassador. Many of you thought I already was a Nikon Ambassador because of the global introduction campaigns for the Z7 and the D850 that I worked on, but no. In 1988 I bought my very first camera – a pink Haking Pix point-and-shoo > Read More....
Posted on 7 September 2018
Impressions from the field of the new Nikon Z7 mirrorless camera. Introduction Earlier this year I got a phone call from Japan asking whether I would be interested in working on yet another important global introduction campaign for a new Nikon product. As I very much enjoyed creating the Her > Read More....
Posted on 24 August 2018
When Nikon asked me to shoot for the global introduction campaign for the Z7, they gave me the freedom to decide where I wanted to shoot. After they explained about the larger lens mount and the increased level of sharpness they were able to get because of it, I decided to pick the sharpest landscap > Read More....
Posted on 16 August 2018
Nikon Asia has published a video on how they test the ruggedness of its DSLR cameras – specifically the D850. The video opens with some Dutch photographer with an outrageously charming accent :-) I just returned from a spectacular trip to the Arctic where I spent 10 days on a ship, searching f > Read More....
Posted on 6 July 2018
Dutch online camera store CameraNU.nl has published a short video about me. You can see me at work while hearing me talk about my passion (sorry, its all in Dutch). All footage was shot by Awi Rabelista in Botswana, Namibia and China. > Read More....
Posted on 24 April 2018
At the recent NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nikon had a large booth to showcase the new D850. It was a bit surreal to see they used a double life-size portrait of Marsel for the center wall… > Read More....
Posted on 8 December 2017
The making of the official Nikon D850 time-lapse ‘Hercules Rising’. Introduction Late 2016 I got a phone call from Japan asking whether I would be interested in shooting a night time-lapse video for the global introduction campaign of the new Nikon D850. It’s not every day t > Read More....
Posted on 8 November 2017
Over the past few months we have been working hard on an 8K night time-lapse for the global introduction campaign of the new Nikon D850. It was an amazing project with an amazing camera – arguably the best DSLR in the world at this moment. We are very proud with the results and hope you’ > Read More....
Posted on 24 July 2017
We’ve had to keep this a secret for a very long time, but we can now officially announce that we have worked on the global introduction campaign for the new Nikon D850. This is the teaser video that we made with some of the footage from the soon to be released time-lapse video ‘Hercules > Read More....
Posted on 11 January 2013
I’ve never had any serious problems with my Nikon gear, but after the expensive repair on my 24-70, I had some other issues.First, the sun shade of the 24-70. When I put the lens in my camera bag, no matter whether it’s on the body or not, I put the sun shade on the lens […] > Read More....
