SPPL Finals

I got back late Monday night from the SPPL Finals held at Low Country Paintball in Georgia. The weather could of been better and given the thick canopy of the trees the lighting was dark on the fields. The Greg Hastings video game player profile shoot has finally wrapped up. I managed to get about 100 players at this event. I will get some samples up in a later post.

This player slipped into the bunker when I was not looking and began to fire my direction. I remained belly down for about three minutes until he moved on. Being hit is pretty common and hurts more than when playing as the hits are normally unexpected.

Normally the players are in some sort of camo outfit, but this player went with some color. The pink paint is made for the SPPL, but the paintball itself is pretty cool with its custom cover.

There are not a lot of girls that play. I would say about one per two teams (ten to fifteen players to a team, ten allowed on the field at one time). They do seem to get their picture taken more often then the boys.

SPPL Michigan Wrap Up & Pictures

It was another fun weekend shooting paintball pictures for the SPPL's Michigan Qualifier at Hell Survivors located in Pickney, MI (right next to Hell, MI, thus the name). I thought the picture below was pretty funny.



We had a cloud burst Friday night as we were setting up that had small rivers running everywhere, then Saturday the sun was out and hot. Sunday was great weather and the ability to get in the games to shoot was one of the most enjoyable to date.

The transition from the Nikon D40x to the D300 has been pretty smooth; however, the help I have received from Ken Rockwell's site on the fine tuning of the settings was noticeable to me in this last set of photographs. I would highly recommend his site, http://www.kenrockwell.com/.

I have posted all the pictures on my website, http://www.haslamphotography.com/. There you can see about 400 from the Michigan event, really the first 150 are the best.