On Track Into The Night in Bahrain


The 6 Hours of Bahrain is one of three races on the FIA World Endurance Championship calendar that are run at night.  The other races are the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas in Texas.

Shooting at night provides some unique challenges but some of these issues are negated as the circuit has a massive floodlight system that provides light all around the track.

Yesterday I went out and shot some images during the first Free Practice session which finished 20 minutes before sunset.  The low sun provided some deep shadows and also some amazing light on track as sunset approached.











The second 90-minute Free Practice session was run under the floodlights which meant I had to push the ISO up a few notches to 1600 on the X-Pro2 and X-T2.

The moon had risen just above the horizon and I was able to get a few shots with the exposure balanced enough to get both the car and the moon in the shot.

I also took a few shots through the palm trees to give a slightly different view of the proceedings.
















All the images were taken on the Fujifilm X-T2 or X-Pro2 fitted with the XF100-400mm f4.5/5.6 or the XF50-140mm.

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