Originally posted by Wheatfield That’s like saying houses aren’t made with wood, hammers and nails, but by architects and interior designers. Try making a photo sometime without a camera and get back to us about how well it worked out. Sorry, but that quote is mindless pap.
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My experience has been that the higher the frame rate, the more likely one is to miss exactly what the high frame rate is supposed to capture, which is the peak of whatever action is happening in front of the camera. I’m one of those push the button at the right time and know you have what you want people, rather than the push the button at the wrong time and pray that you will get what you want.
Ya, I do that too, but I hold the shutter button down for at least 4 frames, sometimes for all 23. And though the first shot is the best at times, more often than not a frame further down that I didn't anticipate is the best frame. With wildlife, unlike the studio, animals are completely unpredictable, and your ability to anticipate will be found wanting, if you actually shoot burst at most 25% of your images will be the first frame, that is the product of anticipating the moment. The rest will be shots you couldn't have possibly anticip[ated and in many cases will include elements you wouldn't have know were possible.
IN this otter image, the otter had just turned and moved towards me. This image with his foot in the air staring straight at me was for me "the image". The shot I actually set up for was much less interesting and later discarded. Never under-estimate the value of unscripted exposures. This image was available in one frame, if memory serves me well, #8 in the sequence of a 23 shot burst. How do you anticipate that if you don't know it's coming. Do you take a chance on getting nothing, waiting or the perfect shot? If so, you're going to miss a lot of images. This one is in my flickr wildlife folder. The other 23 in the sequence are not, including the image that was a product of anticipating the shot. It comes down to do you want the image or don't you? Because without burst, you're simply not getting it.
This is expereince gained by shooting beside some of the best wildlife shooters that come to the park. I used to think like you. I you learn to set up a good burst, which takes just as much skill as setting up a good single shot, and compare results, you'll shoot in bursts.
In the end, being able to select this image was enabled me to proclaim my image the winner of "most interesting shot of the day, compared with the other images people posted. Of course half of that was, I was the only one in this location when I got the image, but many similar images were posted. Burst took my image "out of the ordinary and made it special.
Last edited by normhead; 02-16-2018 at 10:21 AM.