zerobuttons
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I do recognize that "when to press that shutter" is most often a concept more complex than that, but it seems to me that burst exposure is the only way both pure amateurs and a great deal of semi-professionals are able to work today. Two examples:The one thing that’s going to make me miss or succeed as a photographer is capturing “the” moment, because that involves anticipation and predicting the future. It involves a lot of skill, a lot of guess work, and experience. And I think ultimately knowing when to press that shutter is one of the greatest skills you can develop as a still photographer.
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1) A few years back, when I often shot at motorcycle-race events, every other photographer I met at the tracks was shooting bursts. It took me two days to learn how to compose my body and camera and how to use the DSLR´s facilities optimally. That way I could follow a single driver of group and press the shutter at the right moment. No other photographer I met bothered to learn these skills.
2) Recently, when visiting the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, there were quite a lot of Chinese tourists. A group of them all had DSLRs, and took turns to do insane poses in front of views from the seat rows, while all the others were photographing with all their cameras set to burst exposure.
These are just examples. It seems to me that every aspiring photographer today has seen to many press-conferences on TV, hearing that "click-click-click" from all the photographers´ cameras, leading them to believe that this is how it´s done.