Gun range and a helicopter

12 years 1 month ago #199551 by someoldsong
So today was pretty awesome I will have to admit. My boss invited me out to his farm for a little fun with some affiliates from our company. I was asked to photograph and film while there.

We spent some time on the gun range playing with a bunch of different weapons and the fun part was getting in a helicopter and shooting targets with an AR15 machine gun. I know its a little redneck haha but it was so much fun!














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12 years 1 month ago #199562 by geoffellis
Im sooo jealous. love shooting... but guns in canada arent exactly easy to come by... dont know anyone with a gun range or any serious fire power... let alone a helicopter! LOL
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12 years 1 month ago #199566 by john_m
Great shots! I'm a gun fanatic haha. Just sold my pride and joy, M4A3 with a 2 stage trigger job, full rails, lithium light, eotec 552 HUD sights and so on....your photos make me want to build another haha.

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12 years 1 month ago #199593 by chasrich
Nice... It sounds like a fun way to spend the day. :thumbsup: :judge:

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12 years 1 month ago #199606 by mattmoran
Very nice! I especially like #6. How did you do the selective focus? Did you use some sort of TS lens to get the diagonal band of in-focus? Or did you crop and rotate the image? I'm currious. Very nice effect either way.

-Matt
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12 years 1 month ago #199608 by someoldsong
Thanks guys! I loved it! I didn't get many still shots, most of it was video, but the fun part was videoing with my D5100 over the shoulder of the shooter in the helicopter.

We had some pretty amazing guns out there, 9mm suppressed full auto was my favorite.

The craziest gun of the day: .50 cal sniper rifle. Amazing weapon, not my speed but stil ridiculous


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12 years 1 month ago - 12 years 1 month ago #199612 by someoldsong

Very nice! I especially like #6. How did you do the selective focus? Did you use some sort of TS lens to get the diagonal band of in-focus? Or did you crop and rotate the image? I'm currious. Very nice effect either way.


that actually was my 35mm at 1.8.

and then in post I just changed it to black and white


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12 years 1 month ago #199685 by photobod
Boys and there toys :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: bet you loved every minute of it and we are all green with envy. :judge: :judge: :judge:

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12 years 1 month ago #200176 by Dori
:judge: :judge: :judge:

I always loved to shoot!!!!! :thumbsup:

Don't pi$$ me off, I am running out of room to store the bodies...

Resident Texasotan...

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12 years 1 month ago #200182 by effron
Cool stuff, and that's NOT red neck. Its American.......;)

Why so serious?
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