Five in a row - Simon Arron

I suppose really though, the machine gun approach is to try and catch just a few, maybe only two or three out of 12 or so, and you would simply delete the rest. There's no excessive processing time required for that .. What is important is a good image view programme that allows side by side comparisons and zooming.

A great finish to your 5 Simon. The Robin is excellent, I love the OOF background which complements the subject really well. Thanks for giving us a great and greatly varied 5 in a Row!

I was covering an event at Snetterton yesterday, Nigel, and chatted to a pro photographer friend. He is of the old school and shoots one frame at a time. The machine-gunning topic came up, because it irritates him, too, so recently he asked an agency snapper why he did it. The answer was simple: he was working for a sponsor, who wanted as many shots as possible and was more interested in a sharp car than whether the background was nicely composed. If there was a sawn-off grandstand behind, the client wasn't concerned. Hence the photographer's job was to remain trigger-happy every time the car came past, and then to follow it all the way through the corner.

Commerce, then, rather than artistry, but I guess in his position we'd all do the same.

It can obviously work well for some situations. For fast paced action surely there are times when you've got more chances of a few 'fluke' crackers from a burst than if you kept trying to snatch the single shots?

That's undoubtedly true, Nigel, but I'm just a stubborn old purist!

Superb, interesting shots and comments