I haven't had a chance to take many pictures this week; it's dark out when I get home and my inside action pictures are just plain blurry. So I decided to go with one I've always really liked from my collection. This picture was taken in continuous mode on my Fuji. My friend is slightly blurry against a static background, but I actually like that effect even if I originally intended to make him clear. I'll often use this mode to take pictures of moving objects. For instance, when I went whale watching a few years ago I'd take 5 consecutive pictures - only problem was I swear the animals intentionally weaved between my shots and only gave me tail...
Occasionally, when I'm photographing birds (hawks maybe) I'll try to follow their movement with the camera, but if I'm zoomed in too much I often lose then in my viewfinder and therefore lose the shot... This is not a technique I ever thought to perfect, but I like the idea of practicing on moving objects (cars, trains, etc...) to get a better feel of what works and what does not.
Below is another action picture of girls flinging leaves into the air. Watching this movement is so wonderful and I was happy to have my camera with me when I took this shot.
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Both pictures give the sense of movement. When taking them, were you already following the movement, panning your camera (so to speak)? I know what you mean with the continuous shooting - I used that with the birds, just held it down and kept trying to follow their flight patterns. I got one. Later in the day I went back out and kept shooting (with my camera - to clarify that) to see if I could capture a better one flying and finally did - it was incredible how I could see them flying, but - even though the camera was click click click it did not capture them because of the speed (in relation to the whales - the birds didn't even leave a tail feather to capture)! I found I was able to capture them flying at either take-off or landing. Maybe if you see a hawk and can get it in one of these phases might be able to get it? We have a lot of hummingbirds here, so hopefully we will be able to get one on film next year. We accidently had one that saw reflection on the window of the door and knocked itself out. My daughter heard a bang and we found it laying on our porch. She thought it was dead. We grabbed a box lid, put grass into it, and placed the hummingbird in it. We sat in the flower garden with the box lid hoping the hummingbird would wake up... it finally did and flew off. We fixed the window so it wouldn't happen again.
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