In the good old days BC (before Covid) I was always rushing around and very rarely spent time in my own garden. Lockdown changed that. Although there's not much of interest there, I spent a lot of time in the garden taking photos of the same boring things. Then a few months ago I developed an interest in bird photography.
The purchase of a Canon M6 Mark II made it much easier to capture birds in flight and allowed me to catch what would previously have been "the one that got away" - photos that my slow reflexes would never have been able to catch without the assistance of pre-burst shooting.
Pre-burst shooting is when you half press the shutter button to focus on your chosen subject and wait until the decisive moment to fully press it. As long as the shutter is half pressed, a special feature on cameras like the M6 Mark II allows the camera to temporarily save 30 seconds worth of shots in the buffer, and a full press will tell the camera to save the last 30 seconds worth of those shots to the memory card.
I confess in the beginning it felt like cheating. But I soon realised that it still takes effort on my part to get those shots. Effort and a lot of patience.
Here is one of my favourites.
