Spreadeagle Tit-How to?

http://gallery.photographyreview.com...TitfFlying.jpg

No I didn't sit and hope I could press the button in time, this is how I did it for those who have yet to use the remote shooting ability on their 350D hope it helps.

If you have the Canon software then you just use the EOS capture proggie, and connect the camera to the computer by the USB lead as if you were going to dowload some piccies off the CF card.
When you open the EOS Utility program there is a button marked Camera Setting/Remote shooting. make sure the camera is wired up and switched on then click the button and a little control box opens up that lets you make lots of adjustments to the camera.
At the top is a menu and seleting the middle label, marked Tools, opens up a requestor box for 'Timer Shooting'. Select 999 piccies, 0 delay and minimum 00.05 between shots and at half second intervals the timer will fire the camera up to 999 shots, and press the little camera icon. If you have done every thing right the camera should start firing and a little progress box will open up on your computer screen. Make sure you have an extension USB lead. only £7 for 5 metres fom Ebay and you can link up to 5.
Then go grab a beer or watch the World Cup or what ever else takes your fancy on a hot summers day and let the computer do it's thing. After 999 shots reset and start again if you want more, then when you have finished start the long hard work of sifting and discarding. Remember if you use RAW format you will using about 10 gig nearly of hard drive space for every thousand piccies on a 8mp camera.
Can anyone suggest any other ways of attaining this sort of shot, short of getting lucky.

kitten

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Can anyone suggest any other ways of attaining this sort of shot, short of getting lucky.

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Sure, good timing. Comes from patience waiting for the bird, and lots of practice.
Do just what you didn't do :) "sit and hope I could press the button in time"

Or technology, set up crossed lasers and detectors, wired up to a computer that detects the broken beams and when both are broken turns off the lasers and then takes a shot - all within thousandths of a second.

There's a video device that clips onto the eyepiece, it can be programmed to look for movement and take a photo asoon as it detects movement in the image. Costs about the same as the 90 degree finder form Canon (about hte same as a 4G CF card).

A wired remote like the Canon timer remote can do the same as you've done. But that will use the memory card and not download thorugh the USB to your computer, so the number of images you can take would be more limited.

Umm...spreadeagle tit? Was it wrong for me to assume there would be naked people involved? Yes, apparently.:aureola:

It's a very cool image, although I think I would like to go about it by following the bird, and lots and lots of practice.

I haven't tried hooking my camera up to my PC like this yet, but the more I hear people talking about it, the more I want to give it a try.

I have done something similar to this with my DRebel and the RS-60E3 remote shutter release. I set the camera up the way I wanted, then set the release to the "bulb" setting, and walked away. There is a delay between some of the shots though because once the buffer is full, the camera has to write a file to the CF card before it can take the next shot.

Thanks guys I realise the patience factor is heavily involved for greatest job satisfaction and for getting the shots you really want instead of hoping for them. But that sort of patience I am not too good at.
Sorry to dissapoint you Liz.:blush2:

kitten