New Pictures with New Lens

Ok, so I we went to Mady's basketball game and I had the camera with my new lens. I though, man this is going to be so easy to take good pictures with this fancy new lens. Well,....it wasn't as easy as I thought.

First you have to remember that I am trying to take fast action shots indoors with not so great lighting and without a flash...you now....like the professionals do it! You will see that in most of the pictures, I have the focus set to wide and the crowd is in focus and the person I am trying to take a picture of is not. Well enough excuses!! Let's get to looking at the pictures.
Click here to go straight to the photos. Any tips from the professional photographers out there would be appreciated.

Mady is number 44 and her friend Madison, that lives in our neighborhood, is number 42.

She has another game this coming Monday. I at least have another chance to learn more about action photography. Talk to you next week.