[Photo] Airsoft preview

[karohemd]

The first part of twentypence's stag do yesterday was a day at the Mission Airsoft site near Tuddenham.
Our party was just a part of the group (I'd say about two thirds), the rest were other regular players. In this lot of photos I concentrated on our lot, there will be a few more of the others, especially as the organisers have asked for copies of the photos, too.
They ran a variety of games throughout the day with the last being a special "Stag Run" for twentypence which was basically a version of running the gauntlet. twentypence and a few of choice mates - Chris (his Best Man), raggedy_man, Simon D and one of the snipers - were in a group and had to run along a row of buidings around and in which all the others were sitting, guns on single shot. The objective for the Stag's mates was to protect him from incoming fire and IIRC, they almost managed. :o)

On to the photos, I'm surprised that I got as many photos out of it as I did, considering the poor light and not having done this sort of action photography before. There's some dodgy focus, obviously and interesting framing isn't that easy, either but I had to do a lot less cropping than I thought I would.

So here's a selection of the best, the full set is on flickr. raggedy_man, please pass this link on to your airsoft forum.

 
 
 

Posing before the fun started


Chris


Simon


El Robinator


Paul D


diasporal_waves I really like this shot as it's uncropped and as is, at the full 400mm


gandalf_t_black hiding underneath a big red X


raggedy_man looking professional


raggedy_man and robinbloke defending their base


rirekon in full swing. Now we know why the army insist on hair nets. ;oÞ


whiskeylover, the only real pro


twentypence's last cigarette before his Stag Run


The Stag Guard getting ready


Off they run




Duck and cover!


Almost made it


Group photo at the end



Nikon D70, Sigma 70-200mm f2.8 APO, Sigma 2x tele converter, last bits with kit lens; ISO with the Sigma combo was between 1000 and 1600 because it was a really dark day and I wanted to get reasonable exposure times and compensate for camera shake, too (a VR lens would have been fantastic), ISO 400 with the kit lens. Not ideal but it worked OK, I think.