First Set of Paintball Shots - Through the Net and not an optimal Setup..

Alright, well I had to use a school camera to do a sports photography shoot, so I decided to do a paintball tournament that I was going to anyway, unforunately it was through the net and I had to use a stock lens on a nikon d3000, and even more unfortunately I had to use Auto mode for it because the teacher didn't think we were ready for anything more and wanted us to get a "feel for the camera"..,I would have done this with my 30D but my lens wasn't here yet..
Mostly looking for critique on the PP and shooting style/timing.

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Sorry but that has to be the most intrusive watermark that I have ever had the misfortune to view on any forum and seeing as I have no idea of your content, an "F" is an appropriate appraisal.

Sorry, it's from our joint photog site where people can buy prints, it can't just be a small corner thing...please try to look past it, it's not that bad..

I like the color and the subject but I'm with Corkney on evaluating composition. Hard to see past big bright letters in a specific font.

A few of them are okay. The rest are blurry and OOF.

like I said, it's THROUGH THE NET....it's very hard to filter out a net.

SnapShot Photos wrote in post #11022321
I thought this one was cool because he was hit in the arm and the ball got stuck in the crease of his sleeve:

That is cool, but because everything in the image is so sharp, and the paint ball is so small, nobody's ever going to notice without you telling them.

There is a little too much depth of field in most of these pictures, and all of them but the pan-blur shot are more or less the same picture. I would be more interested in a shot from behind the guy, so you can see his perspective on the battlefield, which would be a shot where deep DOF would come in handy, which stock lenses are good at.

That being said I am a fan of the pan-blur shot, to me it's the most successful. It has the kind of action I would expect to see in a Paintball picture, and it shows a little more of the battlefield, to give it more context.

The PP is alright to me, but there is a weird green-ish tinge to the flesh, which is hard to see because of the size of the water mark. They photos might be a touch over-saturated, but that is more an issue of taste.

I realize everybody else has commented on the watermark, and I did critique the images as it if it weren't there, but it really does look unprofessional, and a little bit tacky.

the big watermark is kind of like a paintball thing, everyone i know in the paintball photog world uses something similar..Once I can shoot inside the net the photos will be a lot better, like I said I couldn't really do **** about DOF..I more or less just felt like posting up pics.

I wouldn't worry too much about the short-comings of these images. Don't get hung up on your limitations, whether it be positioning or your equipment. People have been making great images with significant limitations for years, and continue to do so.

So set your sights on the future and focus more on what you shoot next, but make sure to take stock of what didn't work on these images, so your next images come out stronger.

Remember, a good carpenter doesn't blame his tools.

I paintball myself, im sure you have posted these on PBN, but anywho.

Try not to cut out limbs for paintball. Also try alot more angles, it seems you just posted one of the same person, same angle, etc.

I've said quite a few times this was through the net, and if you play paintball, you should know that the net is beside the field, and beside the players, giving me only one angle to work with..I shot whoever was in snake at the time since far away shots turned out really blurry due to said net..I'm not asking for comments on angles because I couldn't help that.

Also, there are 3 people in these 5 photos..the first 2 are the same, 3&5 are the same, and 4 is obviously a different person. I never posted these on pbn because that's not allowed without a photo badge, I did post one or 2 of these on here before though

threw up a new set of pics and a new watermark, opinions?

They seem sharp enough to me. As a motorsports nut I'm well used to having fences to shoot through. Just another cross to bear, but its surprising how well it will disappear if you get close to it.

A bit of post processing to drop the extreme contrast and allow you to work on the compositions and they should be fine. Maybe drop the saturation a tiny bit as well?

see, I'm a huge fan of vibrant, high contrast pictures..maybe it's because I'm new to photography but they seem a lot more powerful to me, if no one else sees it like I do I'll have to adjust my tastes

I did a different style of PP in lightroom, I'm liking the desaturated sort of high detail style that they have going on now, updated first post.