Do you just burst and hope?

[stylgeo]

I am cleaning up my hard drive after realising that I have over 250gb of photos when i came up to a folder where I had 219 photos of the same bird! Not of the same species, but of the same bird perching on the same branch doing absolutely nothing, just turning it's head the other way once in a while.
This is the photo (well, one of them ) from my flickr.

Ok, it was my first photo of a bee-eater, ok there are different settings in a few of the photos, trying different apertures etc and I did take photos while progressing closer to the bird, fearing that it might fly away anytime, but 219 photos are just too many. Imagine if I was using film. That would be one costly photo.

 

[Eric Mc]

I've heard of "spray and pray" but 219 is taking it a bit far

 

[fracster]

Must confess that I don`t, I probably miss some good shots because of it, but there ya go.

 

[Mike Hoyer]

219? Bloody hell.

I shoot a lot, but I shoot motorsport. Multiple cars, multiple clients, all expecting a good selection of pictures... I'd rather they get it than go home disappointed.

 

[stylgeo]

219? Bloody hell.

That's exactly what I said when i first saw the number :bonk:
At first I thought that i must have accidentally duplicated them, you know how it happens sometimes, you select them and then you accidentally move your mouse while holding them and the system just copies them for you. Well, that wasn't the case with this folder, all numbered!

I must have been really excited when I first saw that bee-eater, well I actually remember my excitement that day but I would never have guessed that I had taken 220 photos

EDIT: Lots of past tenses in that last sentence now that I've read it again, is my grammar correct?

 

[Uneducated_Rick]

Spray and pray is one method, but to S&P a stationary object, and long enough to get 219 photos means it was there for a long time?

Is this the ultimate chimp ever?

 

[stylgeo]

Well according to the EXIF I was taking its pictures for 14 minutes. It's not that unusual for bee-eaters for that time of day. It was late in the afternoon and they feed during daytime when all the insects are out and they do like to just perch and catch some sunlight before dark. But I didn't know that at the time since it was the first time I was taking a photo of one. During the next 2 weeks after that photo I did spend a lot of time with these birds and learned their habits.

Check this thread out, it's from one day of those 2 weeks I'm talking about!