Handball

[amid]

I'm a newie and I took pictures in an indoor handball game with very, very poor ilumination. The game is really fast, similar to basketball. For the conditions I think that the pictures came out pretty good. I used a 40 D with shutter speed of 500, 2.5 aperture and 1600 ISO with a 50mm compact macro lens, its the only lens I have, for now, I hope.
Any tips will be appreciated.

[amid]

[nathanbarlow]

crop the blue guy on the right out. Might have been better if you had composed the shot to include him fully... but action shots are hard to compost (so fast)

Probably have a play around with curves or levels to fix the underexposure a bit... unless you happen to be shooting RAW?

[briandee]

its still a bit dark, but you shouldn't slow the shutter down any or you will get motion blur.... no flash allowed in this game ? if so, using flash with a shutter 200 would still be sharp i think.