Bird Practice

October 15, 2024  •  Leave a Comment

The past couple of weeks, I've been out at Wood Lake with the intention of taking photos of birds.  Actually, I was hoping to get an osprey, but none showed up.  The other plan was to figure out how the "preshoot" and continuous focus modes work, especially together.  Both of those are actually what they sound like.  Preshoot buffers around 5 seconds worth of images before you actively start shooting.  This lets you get images like birds taking off that you might otherwise miss due to slower reflexes.  The Continuous Focus lets you keep a moving object (like a bird) in focus as it is moving.

The first two and last images are straight photos.  The others combined the two modes.

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