Photography Project: Suggestions Needed!

[Luke88]

Hi All,

I am photographer based in London, I have started a project documenting Paintball sites. The guys at Bricket Wood very kindly let me photograph there, you can see some of the images here:

http://www.lukearcherphotography.co.uk/portfolio/tearsheets-and-news/

I'm looking for the next site to photograph and I would love your suggestions on the most visually interesting ones out there.

Any help would be great - I'm forward to a few games on them too!

cheers

Luke

 

[Pikey1981]

I'm guessing paintfest will be a really good place to get some awesome action shots

 

[Luke88]

Im not really looking for action shots, but I checked out Paintfest and the location looks great so thanks for the suggestion!

 

[Pikey1981]

No problem m8 you will Deffo get whatever shots your after there

 

[Tom]

Have a look at the map page on paintball calendar

http://www.paintballcalendar.co.uk/map

That will give you a guide based on places that have tournaments, scenarios etc

Is the project 'paintball sites' or 'sites where there is paintball'?
The latter would allow for the unusuals such as army sites, tunnels etc

Drakelow tunnels near Kidderminster - underground, spooky, some funky rooms such as a TV studio (ex ww2 factory, government bunker etc)

The bunker Exeter, ex raf, couple of buildings and underground bits

My local near Andover, Ironsight urban in goodworth clatford
Based in ex-mushroom farm tunnels it had a mix of indoor and outdoor and a few themed rooms
There are still a couple of rooms gutted by the site fire last year and has re-construction underway in areas so get there as soon as you can for some funky photos

 

[Luke88]

Hi Tommikka,

Thanks for that - great suggestion with the calendar.

I had not even thought of the distinction between 'paintball sites' or 'sites where there is paintball' thats one I will have to think about.

cheers

Luke

 

[Joe Ellis Jr]

Urban sites might be a good one to check out, i think Urbanpaintball are running some events at army training bases with street fighting and CQB etc

 

[emisnug]

It depends what you're after - I personally think that there's a nice contrast between Outpost Chester (although Axon Photography has them pretty well covered) and the CPPS site in Penkridge.

Not a fan of the rigged smoke grenade though. Too obvious for my liking. What gear do you use?

 

[Luke88]

thanks for all the suggestions and feedback - I'm taking with and without the smoke, I will decide later what makes the final cut. I use a Mamiya 7 medium format camera.

 

[emisnug]

Not a half bad camera! I always preferred the Sinar Norma style of doing things, but recently the film is getting crazy expensive to process correctly, so I've moved to 120 film on the Hasselblad for stills.Do you Photoshop your pictures at all? My F5 still gets used on family outings: