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<blockquote data-quote="KWJams" data-source="post: 36433" data-attributes="member: 1926">Thanks Anthony, It sounds like a slightly used Tamron would be the right lens. The night time flat track races and night time motorcycle hillclimbs that I have been taking pictures at have very limited lighting. The hillclimbs have portable construction lights placed on the hill to light up obstatcles and that is about it. With the naked eye you can follow the bike up the hill or around the track and what I found is that it works best is to find a spot and pre-focus and wait for the subject to come into the light.Here is an example of a night time hillclimb were I just pre-focused on a lit up spot where the rider would land from a jump. I was standing on the outside of dirt berm that they had to land the jump and then do a 90 degree turn away from me.Looking at the EXIF info on this I was at 210mm focal length so I will need to hit the Lottery it looks like. [ATTACH]6244[/ATTACH]Thanks Eduard, I was amazed at how well the colors popped in the light I was working with. The track was on private club grounds away from city lights so it was pitch black beyond these corner lights so that added a lot of the drama. Usually races like this take place on horse tracks with grand stand lights washing out the surrounding darkness.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KWJams, post: 36433, member: 1926"] Thanks Anthony, It sounds like a slightly used Tamron would be the right lens. The night time flat track races and night time motorcycle hillclimbs that I have been taking pictures at have very limited lighting. The hillclimbs have portable construction lights placed on the hill to light up obstatcles and that is about it. With the naked eye you can follow the bike up the hill or around the track and what I found is that it works best is to find a spot and pre-focus and wait for the subject to come into the light. Here is an example of a night time hillclimb were I just pre-focused on a lit up spot where the rider would land from a jump. I was standing on the outside of dirt berm that they had to land the jump and then do a 90 degree turn away from me. Looking at the EXIF info on this I was at 210mm focal length so I will need to hit the Lottery it looks like. [ATTACH]6244._xfImport[/ATTACH] Thanks Eduard, I was amazed at how well the colors popped in the light I was working with. The track was on private club grounds away from city lights so it was pitch black beyond these corner lights so that added a lot of the drama. Usually races like this take place on horse tracks with grand stand lights washing out the surrounding darkness. [/QUOTE]

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