Shooting shooting in the dark.

Me and a friend had some fun at the range that I work at after closing time and this is the result. All the pics are taken in bulb mode with iso 4000-5000 and f/3.5 or f/4,0. The problem was that it was pitch black when the lights was turned off (had a little green light showing the emergency exit) so I had do to the focusing with the lights on but still some of the pics are a little bit out of focus. Does anyone have any advice on how I can improve taking pics like this?? Next time I am taking my tri-pod with me.

I'd put a weak light behind them to put some rim light on his back.
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Your Canon 430ex II will provide a focus assist beam when you want to focus your shot (only works in One Shot mode--does not work in Servo mode).

If you only need the focus assist beam, you will have to go into the menu settings of your camera to keep the flash from firing.

Sorry about that PhotosGuy, been a while since I posted.

Will try that out VCY, thanks

Timing is the thing - I've used a sound trigger for a flash that allows you to catch the shooter and the gun shot. The trigger was something my son put together for me. Dark evening, tripod, flash on a stand with the sound trigger attached. I used a 10 second exposure and told the shooter he had to fire within that time frame. Worked quite well as shown here. Black powder seems to work best.

I would expect you could accomplish much the same thing with a manually fired flash at the sound of the gun. With some practice.