October 24th marked the final home varsity football game for Miamisburg High School.  They had an aggressive road schedule this year with only four home games and unfortunately I was traveling during one of those.

The photos came out really well – a firmware update earlier this year for the Canon R5 Mark II add brought a new Subject Detection mode for American Football, which I’ve been using this year.  I’ve noticed a marked increase in the number of “keeper” photos I’m getting using the new setting.  It seems to do a pretty good job of locking on the football player with the ball.  As usually, I was using the RF 70-200 as my lens.  And in order to maintain a shutter speed of 1/1000th or better, most of these photos were taken at ISO 4000, which absolutely blows my mind.  Some of the photos were admittedly a little noisy at that ISO (particularly in the shadows) but I continue to be extraordinarily impressed with Adobe Lightroom’s Denoise feature.  It works miracles without destroying detail:

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The marching band put on one heckuva show and I got some nice shots of them as well:

I’ll get a one month break in November then I’ll be back at it for Friday night home Varsity Basketball games starting in December.