Food vendor in Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown, Malaysia

How do you get that one great shot, particularly when you don’t have time to set it up or when you have constantly changing situations or a dynamic subject? One solution is to shoot a lot of frames one after the after to ensure that you capture the perfect shot.

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As long as you have a decent-sized memory card, there is no reason why you can’t take multiple versions of a scene. You might simply press and hold the shutter button down and let the camera’s high-speed motor drive do the work. At 5 frames per second (or whatever your camera is capable of) it’s a quick and easy method of getting a lot of images.

Alternatively, you could be more deliberate and take the images singularly but all as variations on the same theme. The photo above is a good example of this. The vendor’s smiling face and busy movements caught my eye from across the street, so I crossed over, positioned myself in front of the stand and took a number of frames one after the other. Later, I simply imported them all into Adobe Lightroom and selected the one I liked best. Here’s a couple that didn’t quite work.

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