Something a little different

[Redal]

I popped over to Taupo for a little while and went to the jousting event.

A few from the day.
http://redal.smugmug.com/Sports/taupo-joust/LMP3644/771221606_SMX7f-XL.jpg

http://redal.smugmug.com/Sports/taupo-joust/G0M4208/771221574_SrhSZ-XL.jpg

http://redal.smugmug.com/Sports/taupo-joust/G0M4206/771221553_DLhGv-XL.jpg

[nathanbarlow]

woohoo that looks fun! (and potentially painful!)

Nice timing with the last one - I assume you used the camera in your sig - and just fired at high fps?

Did you see anyone get knocked off?

[Redal]

Nathan,
it was fun to watch, but it was quite limiting with movement around it as there were no stands to sit in.
To start with i used my 1dmk2n with a 300f2.8 but it was to long so i switched to to the fullframe 1dsmk2 and 300f2.8 , its frame rate is only 4fps , but these were all single or double tap shots, im not a machine gun kind of guy :)

One ride feel off, but know one got knocked off , due to the type of lance they used.

[fokker]

Nice shots. I was there too, but only for about half an hour at the end of the last day, so din't really see any jousting unfortunately. I ahd my 40d and 200mm 2.8, which was far too long to get any candid shots of all the critters around.