Paintball!!

TralfazPhoto

Have been keeping myself busy taking pictures of paintball playin. Heres some stuff from Sunday.

gpphotos

you got some killer shots! what shutter speed do you have to use to stop a paintball?

bikingbets

I love these! Very sharp, and the background colors are great! My favorite is the first.

Betsy

TralfazPhoto

Stoppping paintball coming straight at you or not much of an angle about 1/1250th of a second, the second picture. Stopping one goin straight across, 1/2500th - 1/3000th or so, the fourth picture with the splatter the 2 little blurrs to the right are incoming shots too. This day i was shooting at 400 iso Aperture priority 70-300 4.5 - 5.6 nikon d200 , beautiful bright sunny day.

Fields limit speed on paint to 299 feet per second or less. but... thats an entire football field in a second.

2whlrcr

I don't anything about paintball, but I like these shots.

How do you keep your equipment from getting painted?

TralfazPhoto

2whlrcr wrote:

I don't anything about paintball, but I like these shots.

How do you keep your equipment from getting painted?

I havent actually been shot in the camera, yet. I have Camera Armor on the body (camouflage color of course).

Eventually i'll get something like this: Naturescapes
These guys have some pretty neat stuff too, and i like gadgets... alot.

Sometimes there is light splatter and I wipe it off with a towel. But a long lens helps to seperate myself from the action.

Then just make sure you dont get caught in a cross fire.

Some more pictures from the day I posted on a local Arizona paintball site.
http://www.pbaz.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48039

beetle8

#1 is a great shot, totally tells the story, if you've ever played that shot brings it back, $5 worth of balls falling to the ground is OK as long as you get enough in the hopper to do the job and FAST