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Well I thought I’d make a blog entry regarding this topic as it is kinda important to me. A few months ago I was speaking with fellow media guy Zoidwolf about photos and other media in airsoft. We both came to the same conclusion that a tour of the local airsoft sites would be a great idea. We would have a chance to go out into the airsoft community and meet you guys and girls, plus have the chance to see a lot more airsoft sites in and around the Lincolnshire area. But I am getting ahead of myself, maybe a little background information about CraftySniper and Zoidwolf would be best. You all know about me, I started airsoft 6 years ago and never really looked back, I like media and both hobbies kinda gel well together. Zoidwolf is the name (not his real name lol) of a good friend I met a few years ago through the coming together of a few slightly strange individuals. We all like airsoft and have become good friends through the sport. Now when it comes to myself and Zoidwolf the photographer we kinda just started to work together with taking photos and recording videos at Lincolnshire Airsoft Club and I think I am safe in saying we work well together in the media world of airsoft. Skip a few months on and we start to chat about a tour of airsoft sites. A plan was formed that both of us was going to be attending a lot of new airsoft sites and clubs. It quickly dawned on us that this was going to be big. We planned to make 2 visits to each site and there was possibly going to be a second tour in the second half of the year. We made our first few trips and it dawned on me just how much footage and videos that we was making at each of these sites. I was working the vast majority of the video work and quite a lot of photos whilst Zoidwolf was doing the opposite. It was not uncommon for Zoidwolf to come out with over 1000 photos at each event. I on the other hand was filling 2 and sometimes 3 SD cards with video clips. Needless to say this was going to require a lot of reviewing and editing to make the final pieces of work that you all was going to see. We both have full time jobs and editing as anyone will tell you is a sod!! It takes time and a lot of effort. With both of our jobs this was going to be a lot of work. Some of our visits would be on the following Sunday so we would have to get all the work from a previous trip all finished and uploaded throughout the week before the next trip, a daunting task to say the least. I was looking at my SRS sniper rifle and thinking when was I going to get to use it again. I managed to grab some game time with my TM Scar H which only reminded me of just how much I love actually playing the sport.
It was at this point that my job stepped in and gave me a boat load more work. This was pretty much it for me and the tour. Something had to give, I was getting to the point that I was going to hate the sport of airsoft. It was at this point that I quit the tour, leaving Zoidwolf to carry on. Now before some of you start to think that I left him on his tod for all of the work on this tour that’s not quite true. I am the one who is editing all of his videos. I am also sharing as much of his finished work on my Facebook page. And don’t think that I will never get to go on a tour trip to a site because you never know what might happen in the future. CraftySniper
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Welcome to my latest blog entry. As you all know it’s been a while since my last written blog. I have been thinking of starting these up again and whilst I was thinking of how to make these a tad bit different form the last blogs that I made. I have come to the conclusion that they need to be a bit smaller in length and I need to feel like they are not massive essays. No need to make me think like I am back at school hahaha. So what is different? Well I have been working very hard with my Silverback SRS sniper rifle. I have been working on some internal upgrades and also working on its externals. I am now at the 90% with the rifle and how it shoots. I have a full Edgi internal setup which is working great with me. I have applied some camouflage colours to try and make the rifle blend into the background. A hard task due to its length. What about making you disappear?
Glad you mentioned that. I am planning on creating a custom ghillie suit, yep that’s right the man who prefers a hammer is going to be let loose with a backing suit and many colours and I am sorry to say who also has no idea what he is doing lol. I am planning on making a series of videos and photo sessions at various stages during the creation of this suit. I can’t promise that the end product will be amazing but I am willing to give it a shot. Sniper videos? They have always been on my mind. I have the cameras and the rifle and the site, what I don;t have at the moment is the know how to create these videos. They are very much more different then anything else that I have created for airsoft. But don’t worry I am watching a lot of videos from people who know a lot more about these multicam videos and how to make them. That is about all I am going to put in this first blog entry. I have lots of other things to speak about but this might end up being a very long entry if I type all those down. Hope you are interested in these blogs and I really do hope they grow. CraftySniper. |
AuthorHello, my name is CraftySniper and this is my Blog section. I have been doing airsoft for 5 years and its one of the best sports I have ever played. Archives
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