![]() I like this image, but I also like the other 12 from the burst which made it through my culling process. This Sooty Oystercatcher is stationary, on a rock platform just above the ocean waves washing over the rocks. Here are some examples where I have 22 images which I consider to be keepers and I 'crunch' them down to 2 raws and 2 gifs to keep in my archive gif and a few of the best images, the rest I delete I then export the frames as jpgs and make an animated. ![]() Sometimes however another solution works well for me, especially when there's some motion from frame to frame.Īfter culling out the bad images I select a reference point in the first image - it could be the eye of the bird or a fixed point on a rock or branch - and then I crop and precisely position the reference point such that it doesn't move between frames. By the end of this process I usually have 2 or 3 images to keep, sometimes more if the bird was doing something interesting like eating a fish. I delete the worst one and bring up a new candidate. I look for detail - does one have better feather detail, did I catch the eye better with the other. I pair them up 2 at a time using Lightroom's 'XY Compare' view. The next step always seems to give me some mental discomfort - deleting perfectly good images. īut do I need two dozen images of an Oystercatcher sitting on a rock - a bird of which I already have plenty of good images - no ! But I can still be left with a dozen or more images - all of which have good focus and likeable composition and balance - all could be keepers. Using Lightroom for my PP I will view each image and delete any not sharply focused or with some other defect. ![]() Sometime I might have 10, 20 or 30+ images from a couple of bursts - all of the same subject spanning only a couple of seconds This post isn't about the merits and reasons for shooting bursts, but what to do with the large number of images we can have as a result of shooting bursts. Still others will shoot repeated short bursts because their camera|lens combo lacks the precision needed to easily pick out the desired focus point on the target bird (usually an eye) - the AF dithers and wanders around - close but often not exactly where it's needed to be. Others will say that a burst gives you the best chance of catching that critical moment which makes the difference between an OK shot and very good one. Some say that shooting bursts is a 'spray and pray' technique used by birding beginners and those who lack sufficient skill to capture the perfect shot in a single frame
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