Friday Night Lights Again

When Kiran was in the Montgomery Township High School Marching Band, we attended every home game played by the high school football team.

Neither Bhavna nor I am into American sports. When Shaan and Kiran were in lower middle school, we tried attending baseball games, but neither child seemed interested, and Bhavna and I were bored. I grew up playing cricket and what the rest of the world calls football, but most US Americans call soccer.

When Kiran was in the Montgomery Township High School Marching Band, regardless of the weather, we attended every home game played by the high school football team. It was a show of support; the band was quite good, and listening to them play was enjoyable. Much more satisfying than watching the football team lose.

Montgomery Township High School Football
Friday 23 September 2022 · FujiFilm X-T3 · XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR

But the games were also an opportunity to practice sports photography. Carrying a long lens and learning to track fast-moving subjects at high ISO and fast shutter speeds proved to help me develop the skills that would become useful when making wild bird photographs in lower morning light in the woods.

Montgomery Township High School Football
Friday 23 September 2022 · FujiFilm X-T3 · XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR

My youngest, Kiran, is a graduating senior at Oberlin College, so our high school football games were behind us. But now that our nephew is in high school, he has joined the marching band. We want to support our nephew and will most likely attend as many of the home games as possible before the weather gets miserable.

Montgomery Township High School Cheerleaders
Friday 23 September 2022 · FujiFilm X-T3 · XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR
Montgomery Township High School Marching Band
Friday 23 September 2022 · FujiFilm X-T3 · XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR

Night Photography - Sports and Long Exposure

I didn't have much time to capture a new image for Frank's weekly photography challenge this week. However, I do have a set of the night and long-exposure photography images in my Adobe Lightroom catalogue, which I will submit for the challenge.

Hotel Somerset, Somerville
Hotel Somerset, Somerville | Friday 28 September, 2018 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 16 mm | 15.0 sec at f/16 | ISO 200
Friday Night Football, Montgomery Highschool
Friday Night Football, Montgomery Highschool | Friday 14 September, 2018 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 22.7 mm | 140 sec at f/5.6 | ISO 12800
Lower Manhattan Cityscape from Harborside, Jersey City
Lower Manhattan Cityscape from Harborside, Jersey City | Saturday 28 July, 2018 | Canon EOS 5D Mark III | EF24-70mm f/4L IS USM @ 33 mm | 30.0 sec at f/22 | ISO 100
Lower Manhattan from J. Owen Grundy Park, Jersey City
Lower Manhattan from J. Owen Grundy Park, Jersey City | Saturday 28 July, 2018 | Canon EOS 5D Mark III | EF24-70mm f/4L IS USM @ 24 mm | 30.0 sec at f/13 | ISO 100
Schuylkill River. The lights on the houses on Boathouse Row outline each of the boathouses, giving them a Christmas-like display that reflects in the Schuylkill River. —Nikon D5100 + 18-300 mm f/3.5-6.3 @ (82 mm, 8.000 sec at f/16, ISO200), © Khürt L. Williams
Princeton Battle Monument —Nikon D5100 @ (35 mm, 59.000 sec at f/11, ISO100), © Khürt L. Williams
Morven Musem at Night — Nikon D5100 + AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 @ 35mm , 25 sec at f/8, ISO 100. Captured 28 April, 2015.

Friday Night

The Montgomery Township high school "Cougars" football team performed well last night against the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders.

Montgomery scored 41 to Scotch Plains-Fanwood's 21.

No. I'm not into football. My daughter is captain of the high school marching band. We go to the home games to support her.

I used a modified version of an ACROS film simulation recipe by Ritchie Roesch. No post-processing noise reduction was used.

I like how Richie's recipe accentuates the light and dark areas of each image.

FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 55 mm | 1160 sec at f/5.6 | ISO 8000
FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 55 mm | 1160 sec at f/5.6 | ISO 8000
football, montgomery township high school
FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 55 mm | 1500 sec at f/5.6 | ISO 12800
football, montgomery township high school
FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 55 mm | 1500 sec at f/5.6 | ISO 12800
FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 55 mm | 1500 sec at f/5.6 | ISO 12800
FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 55 mm | 1500 sec at f/4.0 | ISO 12800
FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 55 mm | 1500 sec at f/4.0 | ISO 10000
FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 55 mm | 1500 sec at f/4.0 | ISO 10000
FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 34.2 mm | 175 sec at f/5.6 | ISO 12800
FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 55 mm | 1500 sec at f/5.6 | ISO 12800
FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 55 mm | 1500 sec t f/4.5 | ISO 12800
FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 55 mm | 1500 sec at f/4.5 | ISO 6400